r,28 IMi'. T. Carter on Licuietis [lastinator. 



lu-iglit cobalt-blue. Mr. Hall, in his " Key," gives it as 

 '■' blue leacl.^' ^Ir. North does not mention the colour of this 

 part iu his descriptions of Licmefis nasica and L. pasti/tator. 

 Apparently Gould had no personal experience of L. pasti- 

 tiafor in its uild state, and it is possihle that his description 

 of that species \yas made from a specimen of L. nasica, 

 prohably one kept in confiuement. 



In Mr. A. J. CampbeU's 'Nests and Eggs of Australian 

 Birds/ p. 620, he gives tlie distrihution of L. pasli/iatoi' as 

 West and North-West Australia, having apparently been 

 misled, so far as the latter district is concerned, by state- 

 ments from various observers, myself included. He corrects 

 this statement in the ' Emu,'' vol. i. p. 25. The furthest 

 northern point (o£ which I can find definite mention) to 

 which L. jmstinatur extends is the Yandanooka district, about 

 220 miles north of Perth, W.A., where Mr. jNIilligan says 

 that he observed it iu September 1904 {vide 'Emu,' vol. iv. 

 p. 152). Possibly it may have occurred round Geraldton, 

 fifty miles further north, before that district ^as closely 

 settled, but lat. 29^ S. seems to be about its limit in recent 

 years. jNIr. North mentions specimens in the Australian 

 Museum as having been obtained at King George's Sound 

 [Albany] in 188G, and at the Salt River [Pallinup River] 

 in 1808, also a specimen that was killed with poisoned, 

 wheat in a corn-field near Broome Hill in June 1889. 1 

 settled in the last-named locality in 1905, and have heard 

 from many old residents that this Cockatoo occurred in 

 countless numbers about the Northern and all along the 

 Great Southern Railway districts from York to Albany, and 

 caused such destruction to the corn-crops (mostly wheat) 

 that boys were employed to shoot and frighten the birds 

 away, and that it was customary to lay poisoned wheat 

 wholesale in order to reduce their numbers. 



As none of the birds were then to be seen, and as I could not 

 learn of any district in which they were to be found, it cer- 

 tainly seemed as if tlie above-mentioned measures had been 

 successful. Still it was hardly possible that all had been killed. 



