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TRICOLOUR- CRESTED COCKATOO. 
heal'd from the natives that it makes its nest in the 
rotten limbs of trees, of nothing more than the vege- 
table mould formed by the decayed parts of the 
bough ; that it has no more than two young ones at 
a time ; and that the eggs are white, without spots. 
The natives first find where the nests are, by the 
bird making co'tora in an adjoining tree, which lies 
in conspicuous heaps on the ground. Co’tora is the 
bark stripped off the smaller branches, and cut into 
email pieces. When the young ones are nearly 
fledged, the old birds cut a quantity of small branches 
from the adjoining trees, but never from that in which 
the nest is situated. They are sometimes found to 
enter the hollow limb as far as two yards. The 
nests are generally found in a black-butted gum-tree, 
and also in Coroy’bo, Cajim bora, and Yarrowarry 
trees (species of Eucalyptus)." Our next figure re- 
presents the 
