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2 195 Long-billed Cockatoo, Corella, Licmetis nasica, N. 

 2 Ter., N.S.W., V., S.A. Flocks r. ground 17 



White; under wing pale-yellow; under tail bright-yellow; 



forehead, face scarlet; neck, breast tinged scarlet; 



naked blue skin round eye; long bill, 1% in.; f., sim. 



Bulbous roots. 

 1 196*Cockatoo-Parrot, Cockatiel, Quarrion, Calopsittacus 



1 novae-hollandiae, A. Mig. flocks, c. plains, timber 12 

 Forehead, crest lemon-yellow; ear-patch rich reddish- 

 orange in a patch yellow above white below; upper, 

 under gray; white on wings, chest; f., face, crest dull 

 olive-yellow; tail barred brown. Seeds. 



F. 76. PSITTACIDAE (47), PARROTS, Macaws, 433 sp.— 

 144(144)A., 49(49)0., 42(42)B., 2(l)Nc, 



197(196)N1. 



2 197*Superb Parrot (Scarlet-breasted), Green Leek, Barra- 

 2 band Parrakeet, Polytelis barrabandi, S.Q., N.S.W., 



V., S.A. Stat. v.r. timber 1G 



Green; forehead, cheeks, throat rich gamboge-yellow; cres- 

 cent of scarlet next to yellow on chest; bill yellow; 

 sometimes red on thigh; f., green tinged dull rose on 

 chest; thigh red. Seeds. 

 1 98* Black-tailed Parrot,Rock-Pebbler, Rock-Pebble, Smoker, 

 P. melanura, N.S.W., V., S.A., W.A. (interior). 



Nom. v.r. Box flats, timber 16 



Head, neck, greenish-yellow; shoulders, under yellow; 



upper-back olive; wing-quills, tail iridescent black; 



some pink on wing; bill scarlet; f., duller. Seeds, honey. 



1 199*King Parrot ( Scarlet and Green, Spud), Blood Rosella, 



9 King Lory (e), Aprosmictus cyanopygius, E.A., S.A. 



Stat. c. forest 16 

 "Showy, noble species;" head, neck, under scarlet; back, 

 wings green; rump, base tail rich dark blue; band 

 bright green on wing; bill scarlet; f., head, upper 

 green; throat, chest green tinged red; abdomen scarlet; 

 young male like female for two years. Bulbous roots, 

 seeds. 



The Pink Cockatoo (Major Mitchell) is unfortunately becoming 

 rare. It was fairly common when I taught in a Mallee school, 

 near where Hopetoun now is. It has been described as "quite 

 the most beautiful of all the Cockatoos, being a harmony of deli- 

 cate rose-pink and white, with a handsome crest of acuminate 

 feathers barred in crimson, yellow, and white." It does not take 

 kindly to captivity. It nested in the smaller "spouts" of the 

 green "box-trees" in the "box-flats" and swamps about the Goyura 

 School, south of Lake Corrong. 



What is more glorious than a mob of Rose-breasted Cockatoos 

 (Galahs), 500 strong, airing their beauties and graces as they 

 take a constitutional before retiring for the night? Probably no 

 other kind of bird shows better company-flying than Galahs; now 



