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Some Experiences of Cockatoos. 
watch her in case .she continued her wanderings at xunrise. 
I waited for two hours, but neither saw nor heard her. Once, 
indeed, the distant cry of a Banksian reached my ears, l)ut 
its repetition showed that it proceeded from Teddy, indulging 
in his morning llight, his deep sonorous voice being quite, 
unmistakeable. Sadly, therefore, I retraced my steps and 
I had almost reached the house, when, mingled with Teddy's 
calls, I heard unmistakeably the voice of Toby. They soon 
came in view, Teddy circling above the buildings and occa- 
sionally alighting on a chimney pot and Toby in close atten- 
dance, taking wing when he did and settling when he settled. 
A few hours later she came down on to the feeding tray and 
made a hearty meal. 
Of my Banksians Toby was the one who throve best 
at liberty. After she had been out for a few weeks her 
plumage was magnificent, beautifully glossy with the markings 
unusually distinct. Most of the day she passed in the top of 
some tall oak-tree, her presence being rather too ioften indicated 
by the litter of small branches on the ground beneath. In, 
the matter of destructiveness Toby was the woi-st offender of 
the five Banksians I have had at liberty, though a young 
hen I bought later was very nearly as bad. Henry was not 
irreproachable, but he foi'tunately sijent more of his time on 
the roof than in the trees. Teddy and Timmie hardly touched 
a twig. 
Toby was the only member of the flock which was 
often seen on the ground, and which cared to supplement her 
diet of seed and monkey-nuts with green-stuff and wild 
fruits of different kinds. It was not unusual to see her walking 
about on the short turf in front of the stables, picking up 
morsels of grass and daisy and often continuing to feed in this 
way for quite a long time, until her presence was detected 
by a Cereopsis gander, which considered that particular patch 
of grass his exclusive property. 
On observing the headlong appioach of the disturber 
of her meal, Toby would spread her wings land sail lazily into 
a gi'eat cedar which grew close by, and from her secure 
perch on one of the branches would watch the ungainly caper- 
ings of her pinioned foe as he danced and objurgated on the 
ground beneath. When she had been at liberty some months 
