LITTLE LORIKEET 175 
deep red face and the rest of the plumage grass-green. 
In winter they are especially numerous, that being 
the season when most of the gums blossom in that 
part of the district. The flight is rapid and high 
when travelling from one part of the country to 
another ; but when once settled in a clump of gums, 
they are loth to leave it, and you may see a bird for a 
long time in the same tree, merely fluttering, like a 
gorged butterfly, from one cluster of blossom to the 
next. 
I have noted this species all over the district in 
the flower-season, yet have not met with its nest. 
Its breeding-habits are the same as those of the 
Musk Lorikeet, save that it lays four eggs. Probably 
it breeds in the redgums on Woolloomanata, Lara. 
At the Dog Rocks I have noticed this species feeding 
in the same tree with Purple-crowned Lorikeets. 
BLACK COCKATOO 
Calyptorhynchus funereus xanthonotus 
There is only one kind of Black Cockatoo in this 
part of Australia ; and while it could not be described 
as common in this district, where it is at best a travel- 
ling visitor, I have usually noted it once or twice in 
the late spring. It is the extraordinary cry which 
draws one's attention first ; hearing that, I have 
never had any trouble in espying the birds, flapping 
heavily along, as is their wont, in a scattered flock of 
