(Cacatua Galerita). 



OCKATOOS are very graceful looking 

 birds with snow-white feathers and yellow 

 crests. A flock of these beautiful white birds 

 as they fly through the green forests looks 

 extremely pretty, but their loud voices have a 

 harsh disagreeable sound. They do not trouble 

 themselves to build nests, but lay their eggs in 

 the hollow limbs of trees, and there they hatch 

 and rear their little ones. Their food consists 

 of seeds of various kinds growing in the bush. 

 They are very destructive to the farmers' crops 

 of maize and wheat, and in the ripening seasons 

 are seen in flocks of thousands about the 



