Mr. T. Carter on Licraetis pastiuator. G29 



as, from what I could leani, tliey liad siidtlenly disappeared 

 a i'evf years previously. It seemed more proliable that the 

 survivors liad moved to other localities, but the puzzle was 

 "'where^'? I instituted enquiries in various districts, and 

 made several extended tours in the hope of finding a colony 

 of these Cockatoos, in the course of Avhich many caged 

 specimens were seen at farms and other houses, hut queries 

 as to wdien and where they had been captured invariably 

 met with the same answer, namely, that they had been taken 

 from nests years previously, when the Cockatoos abounded, 

 but that none had been seen for many years. From stations 

 at the eastern extremities of the Stirling and Poron-group 

 ranges, I learnt that the last Cockatoos had been seen 

 there about 1900, and that single birds, or a pair, could 

 occasionally still be met with about one hundred miles further 

 eastwards. lu the extreme south-west corner of West 

 Australia, near Cape Leeuwiu, I was told by ]Mr. W. Brock- 

 man, of the Warren River, that in the course of the last iew 

 years he had noted one or two Cockatoos in the dense Karri 

 forests there, but that their appearance was now very rare. 

 A Government surveyor at work in that neighbourhood told 

 me that he had noticed a pair of White Cockatoos about fifty 

 miles to the westward. In the early part of 1910 I made the 

 acquaintance of Mr. A. ]\luir, who informed me that White 

 Cockatoos could be fouud at certain seasons in a remote 

 district of the south-west of this State, near the large fresh- 

 water swamp of Tordit, where he owned an out-station. In 

 March of that year a young farmer told me that only a few 

 days previously he had observed a very large flock of White 

 Cockatoos feeding on an open sand-plain not far from the 

 above-named swamp, so I judged that at last I was getting 

 " on their tracks.^' In October 1910 I received a letter from 

 Mr. INIuir stating that the Cockatoos m ere numerous on his 

 out-statiou, and that young birds were being hatched out. 

 He very kindly invited me to visit him, but I was unable to 

 leave home then. In April 1911 I took a circular driving 

 tour of more than two hundred and fifty miles through 



