All Rights Reserved. November, 1918. 
BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
The Cochateel. 
( Calopsittacus Noxme-Hollandiae ) 
Bv Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S., etc. 
Our member, Mrs. A. M. Cook, having kindly sent me 
a drawinq- of a pair of this well known species, for use in the 
Club Journal, the following' notes are written to accompany 
same. 
The Cockateel, the Budgerigar and the Zebra Finch are 
perhaps the most commonly kept species of foreign birds in this 
country, and of the trio the cockateel is a good second. All 
are prolific breeders, and of all alike it must be said that there 
are individual pairs which, if not barren, are either bad parents 
or only play at housekeeping, and do not go beyond the laying 
of eggs. .Such cases occur with the " old hand " as well as with 
the tyro in avicultitre — there is no remedy save to part with such 
unnatural pairs and procure others, hoping that the " chance of 
luck " may bring along a " breeding pair." 
The Cockateel is almost too well known to need a 
description of its plumage, but the new member is ever with us, 
and this had better be just indicated- Tlie two main colours in 
both se.xes are grey and white, the grey deepening to blackish in 
parts. In the male the sides of the face, forehead and fore- 
crown are iM-imrose-yellow, with a brick-red patch just below the 
eye. The female's face is only tinged with yellow, but she has 
a greyish-red patch below the eye: her tail too differs from the 
male, being barred black, white and pale yellowish. These 
features are well shown in the plate. 
