<I2 cacailid.t;. 



locality, iiieasures ;—Lengtli (A) 1-32 x rob inches; (1!) 1-34 x i-o2inciies; (C) 1-37 x 1-07 

 inches; (D) 1-37 x 1-03 inches. A set of four tai<en by Ur. W. Macgillivray at Yalcowinna 

 CTeei<, Broken Hill, South-western New South Wales, on the yth September, 1907, measures; — 

 Length (A) 1-47 x ro'S inches; (B) 1-46 x 1-09 inches; (C) 1-4 x 1-03 inches; (D) 1-42 x 

 ro8 inches. 



Young birds ha\ e the exposed portion of the feathers of tin- head and breast grey like the 

 back, their bases dull rosy-red. Wing S-5 inches. 



In Eastern Australia September and October constitute the normal breeding season. I 

 have seen numbers of young birds in Sydney bird-dealers shops as early as tlie 7th October, but 

 on the ist July, 1^96, I noted young birds exposed for sale in baskets in George-street, Sydney, 

 recently taken from the nesting-places, and also young Calopsittactis noiuF-hollandue and Baniardius 

 harnardi. Mr. G. .\. Keartland observed these birds nesting on the Fitzroy River, in North- 

 western Australia in February and March, i>iy7. 



C3-en-a.s XjIcnyEETIS, w,„jh'r. 

 Licmetis nasica. 



LONG-BILLED COCKATOO. 

 Psitt(trnsnaxii:iis, Teuiiu., Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. XIII., p. ll.") (1819). 

 Licmi/if iiasicutt, Gould, Bds. Austr., tol. Vol. V., pi. .3 (1848). 

 Licinelis tiauirostrls Gould, Jlandbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. II., p. 11 (18G.5). 



/yif)/i«>/(.v ;«t.s/rvt, Salvad., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 1:5:? (18'Jl); Sliarpe, Hand-1 Bds., 

 Vol. II., p. II (litOO). 



Adult MALK. — General plumiKje ivlnte : lores and a frmital l/and .scarlet ,■ frat/iern of tlie jieri- 

 iiplit/iahnic region (biU sci'rlfl, nil irit/i the exception of tlir anlenor pur/ion irllh a sliylit velloivish 

 wash, which extemls on to llie ear-coverls ; hases of l/ie remainder of the feathers of thr liend, tin- hind- 

 neck, upper hack, throat and breast scarlet, heconiinii paler on tic upper hack and. loayr portion of the 

 breast: under surface (f lite ijtiills and tail-feathers sulphnriielloir : bill horn rol our : leys and feet 

 bin isli-iirey ; iris hlark. Total length in thi' jhsli 2'>-7'i inches, n-iny Vi S, toil ,7 .,', hill i-,", tarsns f't'95. 



Adult FEMALK. — Similar in plumaye to the male. 



i)/s<?-J6i/<io7t— Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 

 /~|^HE Long-billed Cockatoo, or " Corella " as it is more frequently called, is an inhabitant 

 J- of the south-eastern portion of the continent. In New South Wales it is found princi- 

 pally in the western portion of the State, and does not occur near the coast. It breeds in August 

 and September, and young birds used to be seen exposed for sale in the streets of Sydney in 

 October. It is in great demand as a talker, and commands a high price among the " White " 

 Cockatoos of Australia. Formerly, in 1890 and thereabouts, fledgelings could be purchased ac 

 seven shillings and sixpence each, but from inquiries made at a bird-dealer's shop in George- 

 street in October, 1909, the price had then advanced to ten shillings each for a young one that 

 had to be hand-fed, and fifteen shillings each for one that could feed itself. In(]uiries made 

 elicited the fact also, that from \'ictoria and New South Wales combined, four hundred young ones 

 had been received by that bird-dealer during the season, and that supplies were not so free in 

 coming forward as years went on. In addition to its clear enunciation, this species lives to 

 a good old age in confinement. 



The following notes were made by the late Mr. K. H. Bennett ; — " Licmetis nasica is only to be 

 met with in the vicinity of permanent water, and is never, so far as my observations extend, 



