62 Hall, Notes on Bird-Skins from N.W. Australia. [isfoct. 



then passed to the foot, when the berries are picked. If the 

 branch with the berries upon it is close to the bird's present 

 perch the fruits are picked without a severance of the branch. 

 To bite off the branch seems to me to save over much 

 reaching. 



On a moonlight night this species flies about uttering its 

 usual cry, but so far I have not heard it on a dark night.] 



I have noticed Bai^nardius seinitorquatus draw from blossoms 

 the sweets and then nip the twig and drop it when used. 



85. Cacatua GYMNOPIS (Sclater), Bare-eyed Cockatoo. 



Cacatua crymnopis, Sharpe, in Gould's Birds N. Guin., pt. xix., pi. I 

 (1885) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xx., p. 127 (1891). 



One adult skin, 28/5/01. 



[The Cockatoos have been calling all night (9/3/01). The 

 flood waters covered the bases of the trees in which they were 

 roosting, and the rushing of the torrent probably disturbed 

 them. ' It was moonlight, though cloudy. On 28/9/00 Mr. 

 M'Larty, the Livuringa station manager, discovered a nest with 

 one featherless young. When feeding upon the cajaput blossoms 

 (24/10/01) it cuts off the flowering twigs, I should say to the 

 same issue as the Black Cockatoo] — i.e., when used destroyed, to 

 save time in going " fruitlessly over the same ground." 



'^6. Trichoglossus rubritorques (Vigors and Horsfield), 

 Red-collared Lorikeet. 



Trichoglossus riibritorqiiis, Gould, Birds Aust., foL, vol. v., pi. 49, 



part ix. (1842). 

 Trichoglossus rubritorques, Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xx., 



p. 60 (1891). 



One adult male, 12/10/01. 



^y. Melopsittacus undulatus (Shaw), Warbling Grass- 



Parrakeet. 



Melopsittacus tindulatJts, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. v., pi. 44 (1848) ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Bird's Brit. Mus,, vol. xx., p. 594 (1891). 



One adult female, 28/2/00. 



[This bird is said to come in large flocks just prior to the rain, 

 but I saw immense flocks at Lower Livuringa in July, when no 

 rain had fallen for months before or later. 



In one flock I saw a specimen of decided canary-yellow. It 

 was a variety of this species, judging by its form, manner of 

 flight, and association.] 



S8. Ptilosclera versicolor (Vigors), Varied Lorikeet. 



Trichoglossus versicolor, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. v., pi. 51 (1848)- 

 Ptilosclera versicolor, Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xx., p. 66 



(1891). 



One mature male, ii/i/oo; one immature male, 22/10/01. 



