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but quite unlike any other bird's. Their flight is 
slow and flapping; their rounded wings give them 
the appearance rather of some kind of owl than of a 
cockatoo. 
It was pretty to see these birds in the Gardens 
in the winter of 191 3. At sunset they flew down in 
dozens to a trough to drink, quite unconcerned, the 
males' crests showing up gorgeous against their plain- 
coloured bodies. All day they spent in the tall 
sugar-gums, chewing up the green seed-pods and 
scattering the ground below the trees with the debris 
of their feasts. A nest with eggs was reported to have 
been found in the Park later in the year. 
WHITE COCKATOO 
Cacatoes galerita galeriia 
The White Cockatoo is probably familiar to more 
people in the world than is any other Australian bird, 
and I propose here merely to indicate its distribution 
in the district. It is rarely, if ever, seen on the east 
or south sides of the town, and is of late years become 
exceedingly rare in the south-eastern parts of the 
Otways, particularly east of Lome. At Bambra, 
that is to say, towards the northern fringe of the 
forest, bordering the western plains, it was still 
common in the nineties, and probably is so yet. 
The only area, however, where it can be said to be 
resident that is at all near the town is the wooded 
country about the You Yangs. There one finds the 
birds all through the year, and it is likely that they 
