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"to catih fhein. Tht- district is teeming with many varieties, they 
" sent me none, say they cannot catch them . I showed it would pay 
" them well during the slack season, but these ' way -backs ' seem to 
"have no brains for other than farming, and'that, they make a success of. 
1 believe they tried hard to bring some down with them — say 
"they shot about, fifteen Gre-en -Levks dead before they could wound one 
" for a brace bird, they only trappcii one cock, which bit him, and the 
" fool let it go . 
" The season has been very dry and all J'arrots come on to 
" haystacks, and wheatfield.s for food . Cockatoos and Galahs in fTocks 
"of five and six thoiisands. Red-rumps an<l Common Rosellas in 
" great flocks ; numbers of Blue-bonnets, Bulla Bullas, Quarrians, and 
" Yellow -riimps, but not so many Green-Leeks, a few Kings and some 
" other kinds, but I could not make them out, remember these fellows 
" don't know them by their proper names, but have some local ones of 
"their own. They tell me the haystacks and stock-yards are covered 
"with Parrots, and when you go near they rise in great flocks. Cocka- 
" toos and Galahs keep more in the wheatfields, although sometimes they 
" tackle a haystack and pull it to pieces, you must understand these 
" stacks are away and in the open, and uncovered, being cut into chaff 
" before the rainy season comes ou . 
" Two of the.se brothers have a farm eighteen miles away from 
" the homestead, work there all the week and go home on the Saturday 
" afternoon . Two weeks ago they left a wagon load of wheat in the field ; 
" when they returned on Monday, the Cockatoos anil Galahs had ripped 
" open nearlj' every sack and the wheels of the wagon were half-way up 
" in wheat, and Parrots of all kinds were having' a good time . Yet these 
" fellow.-i couldn't catch me any ! 
" If I could get away for a couple of we?ks, would have some 
" of them, if through the war, things get slack will try and get." 
I have copied it word for word as sent me (we also have put 
through without revision. — Ed.) I hope it may prove of some interest. 
Sheffield, 1/3/15. R. COLTON. 
Green Leek=Barraban(rs Parrakeet (Polyiclis barrabinidi) . 
Galah=Roseate Cockatoo (Cacatua roseicapUla) . 
Bulla Bulla=Barnard's Parrakeet {Barnardius bnrnnrdi). 
Quarrian=Cockateel {Calopgittai ns novae-linlhiiKHae). 
Editorial. 
See paije 27 oj Inset (Piid- Paper). 
