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the trunk apart until the interior was fully visible. There were 

 five young clothed in white down, with a few fine feathers show- 

 ing on the wings of the first-hatched birds. By placing a forked 

 strut against the trunk, I was able to restore things to their for- 

 mer condition. The male bird watched the proceedings from 

 a neighbouring tree. This brood of young eventually got safely 

 away. With one excej^tion all the nests of the Xaretha Parrot 

 were in the hollow trunk of a tree, usually a living casuarina, 

 The exception was a nest in a hollow limb of a bigger tree than 

 the average. 



Mr. Bert Cottrill, the station master at Naretha, accom]:)anied 

 me several times in my raids on the Parrots. yVccording to his 

 experience, they were more common around Naretha the present 

 year than he had known before. Mr. Cottrill has been stationed 

 in the neighbourhood for three years. My own impression is that 

 the exceptional rains of May had brought down migrants from 

 the north. Little is known how far the casuarinas extend in that 

 direction. In any case, the range of the Naretha Parrot must be 

 a restricted one. At the fettlers' camp between Naretha and 

 Zanthus it was known as an occasional visitor, but nests had sel- 

 dom been found. To the east, the casuarinas cut out some seven 

 miles away. Naretha is about 95 miles from the shores of the 

 P>ight. It is very questionable if the range extends so far to the 

 south. An area therefore roughly 50 miles in width, and the same 

 distance from Xaretha to the south, with an unknown length to 

 the north would comprise the probable range. Readers of The 

 Emu will be familiar with the appearance of the Naretha Parrot 

 now that it has been honoured with a coloured figure. A full de- 

 scription of the bird and also the eggs, and the circumstances which 

 led to its discovery, contributed by Mr. H. L. White, accompany 

 the plate (Emu, October, 1921). 



Other Species. 



Jn the gums at Zanthus the common Ring-necked Parrot was 

 frequent. Mr. Gibson in his list calls this bird Barnardius semi- 

 torquatus. I made it out to be B. sonarius — the interior form. 

 The under parts of the fully adult were lemon yellow, and only 

 a trace of the red forehead-band was perceptible. Younger birds 

 had the under parts boldly blotched with rich orange. Pairs were 

 on the eve of nesting when I left Zanthus. 



At my Boorara camp I occasionally saw pairs of the smaller 

 Many-colored Parrakeet (Psephotus varius). I met with none at 

 Zanthus, but at Naretha I saw a few pairs in company with the 

 Naretha Parrot. All I saw had the yellow humeral patches. 

 One or two had a peculiar bluish-green shade in the general ap- 

 pearance of their plumage. But this is a variable species. I 

 found no nests, and think it is a much later breeder than the 

 Naretha Parrot. 



On the plain at Haig Parrots were naturally of rare occurrence. 

 I met with only a few small parties of the well-known Ijctcherry- 



