1920.] Western Australian Birds. 713 



for germinating. I explained this to the Chairman of the 

 Roads Board, showing him entire seeds taken from a bird, 

 but he ridiculed the idea of their growing ; however, when 

 I saw him again in 1913, he said that he had altered 

 his opinion, and the law had been repealed. When at the 

 Minilya River in early September 1911 these birds had young 

 or es2,"s in most of the white-o-um trees that held suitable 

 nesting hollows, and when I was there again at the same 

 time (1 to 10 September) in 1916 the same state of atlairs 

 prevailed. A black fellow and I climbed to many " nests," 

 and they all contained young birds or incubated eggs. On 

 22 August, 1916, I saw a flock of about two hundred of 

 these Cockatoos at the Yardie Creek, wliere they breed in 

 the crevices of the cliffs. When staying with a friend near 

 Perth early in that year, he told me that one of these birds 

 which lie had kept as a pet for nine years had recently 

 laid an effo- in its cao-e, over which it brooded and made a 

 sreat fuss. 



Licmetis tenuirostris pastinator. 



A few Western Corellas were seen at Lake Muir in 

 January 1916, and I shot a pair from a tall yate-tree 

 {Eucalyptus <'ormda). Both of them had many grains of 

 wheat in their crops, mixed with honey obtained from 

 Eucalyptus blossoms. None were seen at i^ake Muir during 

 my visit there in March 1919. When staying at Augusta in 

 March 1916, I saw a flock of five or six flying above the 

 river. The residents there told me these birds are not 

 commonly observed. 



Eolophiis roseicapillus assimilis. 



When I was at the Minilya on 19 August, 1911, the 

 Westralian Galahs did not appear to be breeding (a drought 

 was prevailing at the time), but every day scores of them 

 were drinking at the water-trough for horses etc., close to the 

 homestead and other buildings. They were very tame and 

 made a pretty sight. From 1-10 September, 1916, tLey 

 were breeding freely at the Minilya, and all the nesting- 

 sites examined contained small young birds. 



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