Mr. T. Carter on Licnietis pastiiuitor. 



0.33 



Cockatoos are on the wing, and are very noisy and restless 

 tliroughout the day, feeding at all hours. On one occasion 

 only did I see them shew any degree of tameness. I uas 

 engaged in exaniining the old nest of a Shekluck, wliicli was 

 placed about twenty-five feet from the ground in the hollow 

 limb of a Yate-tree, when two Cockatoos perched in the upper 



Text-fio-. 12. 



Jiving' Hed (Imii-tree in the foreground t-nnliiininir a iie.^t 

 of Licmetis pasfmafor. 



branches and exhibited great curiosity as to my doing?-. 

 The tree was growing on the edge of the corn-crop, and 

 doubtless the birds had settled in it, preparatory to a feed 

 of corn, before tiiey noticed my presence. 



In INIr. INorth's account of this s[)ecies, in his 'Nests and 

 Eggs,' he quotes a letter from JMr. Keartland saying that 

 "a friend of his took an egg of /. i>astinatur in S.W. 

 Australia in March L895, and afterwards found two 



