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Hieracidea berigora (leracidea berigora berigora). Brown Hawk. — 

 Not numerous. 



Cerchneis cenchroides (C. cenchroides cenchroides). Nankeen Kestrel. 

 — Not plentiful ; one or two birds seen. 



Ninox boobook (Spiloglaux hoobook). Boobook Owl. — It is remark- 

 able that so few night-birds seem to frequent this locality. A 

 Boobook Owl was heard calling at night, but if it be the Boobook 

 or the sub-species, the Marbled Owl. it is hard to say. 



Trichoglossus swainsoni (T. novcehollandice novcehollandice). Blue- 

 bellied Lorikeet. — Large flocks of these birds passed over each day 

 on their way to feeding grounds. The specimens handled varied 

 much in colouration. 



Glossopsitta eoncinna (G. concinna). Musk Lorikeet. — Numbers of 

 these birds were found feeding on the young shoots and buds of the 

 Angophora trees. Many of the specimens handled had a deep, 

 bright blue frontal band ; no doubt this is due to age. 



Glossopsitta porphyrocephala (G. porphyrocephala porphyrocephala). 

 Purple-crowned Lorikeet. — Not numerous ; a few birds observed. 



Glossopsitta pusilla (G. ptisilla). Little Lorikeet. — These birds were 

 found feeding upon the honey in the flower-spikes of the grass-tree 

 {X anther rhw a) . 



Calyptorhynchus banksi (C. banksii banksii). Banksian Cockatoo — 

 Specimens secured were an adult male and female as well as a 

 one-year-old bird, which proved to be a female. This bird, strange 

 to say, had almost the plumage of the adult male, with the exception 

 of a light sprinkling of yellow specks on the greater and lesser wing 

 coverts ; the band across the tail, instead of being vermilion, as in 

 the adult male, had the external margin of the feathers light red, with 

 irregular bars of black, half of the inner margins light red and the 

 other half yellow, also crossed by irregular black bars, with a narrow 

 margin of yellow on each side ; under tail coverts glossy black ; two 

 centre tail feathers and the tips of all the other feathers glossy black. 

 The principal contents of the stomach were the seeds of casuarinas 

 and banksias, with a few insect larvae. 



Calyptorhynchus funereus (C. funereus funereus). Black Cockatoo. 

 — A good many of these birds were met with near the sand-dunes 

 along the coast. Three specimens came under the notice of the writer 

 — an adult female and two immature males. They seem to agree 

 with the Queensland and New South Wales birds both in size and 

 colouration. The immature males, which would be between one 

 and two years old, resemble the female in colouration. The yellow 

 of the tail of the older bird of the two is speckled over with dark 

 specks ; the other is heavily blotched. Their bills, like that of the 

 female, are nearly white. The stomachs contained banksia, 

 casuarina, and grass seeds, the latter principally the seeds of a flat- 

 leaved plant growing on the sand-dunes. 



Callocephalon galeatum (C galeaium). Gang-Gang Cockatoo. — 

 Quite a number of these little Cockatoos were met with amongst the 

 heavily- timbered country ; most were immature birds in their first 

 year's plumage. They visited the deep, damp gullies where the 

 acacias grew ; the seeds of these trees seem to be the principal food 

 of the Gang-Gang at this time of the year. When passing through 



