1920.] Western Australiun Birds. 715 



Barnardius zonarius occidentalis. 



Nortlierii "Twenty-eight"' Parrots were seldom noticed 

 about the Gascoyne River near Carnarvon in September 1011, 

 but very fairly plentiful in September 1913, and were then 

 rearing their young. A few were seen there in September 

 1916, and a good many in the ranges north of the Yardie 

 Creek in July and August, but they did not appear to be 

 breeding. The aborigintd name there is " Mullin-goora." 



Purpureicephalus spurius carteri. 



Red-capped Parrots were very numerous at Collie in 

 February 191G, and were destroying a lot of fruit in the 

 orchards, where they are locally known as " Hook-bills." 

 Only two specimens were obtained on my 1919 trip, when 

 they were very seldom seen — viz., two at Gnowangerup (east 

 of Broome Hill), two on the high road n-hen I was motoring 

 near Brunswick, and one at Lake Muir. (I was keeping an 

 especial look-out for this species, as I wanted specimens.) 

 I do not think that the females of this species assume the rich 

 colouring of the male birds, and immature males are rather 

 brighter in colour than the females. The same applies to 

 Platycercus icterotis. 



Psephotus varius exsul. 



A pair of Western Varied Parrots were shot on 2 Septem- 

 ber, 1916, in some thick scrub near the Minilya River. 

 I had not seen any of these beautiful birds since 1887, when 

 they were common on the Gascoyne River. 



On 23 May, 1919, when I was staying with my friend, 

 Mr. Bruce W. Leake, who is a keen field-naturalist, he told 

 me of having seen some small Parrots near the salt lakes at 

 Woolundra that were strange to him, so we drove out to 

 investigate, and found them to bo of this subspecies. There 

 were a good many of them in small parties of three to seven, 

 but they were very wary and shy. However, three speci- 

 mens were obtained, which had their crops full of wheat 

 grains bitten into small pieces, with man}^ small grass 

 seeds. 



