224 Death of a Veteran Lemon- crested Cockatoo. 



able or could be expected to be able to stand this treatment. 



This season I have been fortunate, so far in not having 

 lost a hen through the egg trouble, and account for this by 

 giving a plentiful supply of old crushed mortar and fresh 

 green-food twice daily. I am also quite convinced that the 

 change to a .mixed seed dietary, which you were good enough 

 to advise has been most beneficial, and during the moulting 

 seabon the giving of as great a variety as possible gives a 

 better tone to the plumage. A very fine Red-headed Gouldian 

 hen hao paired with a Red Weaver. Is it possible for those 

 to mate satisfactorily ? 



Death of a Veteran Lemon-crested Cockatoo. 



Reprinted f.om some unknown Australian Journal, with apologies ij the 

 Editor. Cutting sent by Mr. W. R. Coltcn. — Ed. 



The famous 

 Cockatoo which re- 

 cently died at Canter- 

 bury, aged 1 1 9. This 

 is a record in long- 

 evity for an Austra- 

 lian Parrot so far as 

 the offic'al records are 

 concerned. For many 

 years the bird was 

 in J os£ession of Mrs. 

 Sarah Bennett, the li- 

 censee of the Sea 

 Breeze Hotel, at Tom 

 I'gly's Point. When 

 she left there, about 

 1 2 months ago, she 

 transferred the Parrot 

 to her nephew, Mr, 

 Murdoch Alexander 

 Wagschall, at Wool- 

 pack Hotel, Canter- 

 " Cocky Bennett." bury. The old bird 



was practically featherlesi for the last 20 years, but it maiq- 



