THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
their habits than the White-tailed species. The aboriginal name in parts 
of the South-west is 4 Kor-rar-ra,’ in imitation of the harsh cry of the birds. 
The eggs are laid in cavities high up in lofty trees and are rarely obtained. 
Both this species and baudinii are hardly ever seen in confinement (I have 
never seen the former in a cage), as they seem of a morose and savage 
disposition. Further north Red- tailed Cockatoos occur plentifully inland 
in the White Gum timber of the Murchison and Gascoyne Rivers, and a small 
flock was seen on the Upper Minilya River in September, 1913, but I do not 
know if they are the great-billed form ( macrorhynchus ) or stellatus. If one 
of a flock of Red- tailed Cockatoos is shot and falls wounded to the ground, 
the rest of the birds will hover close around it, and thus afford an easy 
target to the gunner, so long as he remains out of sight. I have known 
of six or eight birds having been shot at one time (not one shot), one after 
another, through this habit of theirs, which is also followed by the White- 
tailed species, but not to such an extent.” 
Mr. Edwin Ashby has written me : “In June, 1889, 1 saw several large 
flocks of this bird near Koujnup, West Australia (I should have said between 
the former place and Eticup). A female I have in my possession is much 
larger than the Fink River specimen and is beautifully barred on the whole 
of the under-side, more or less tinged with pink.” 
With regard to the Fink River specimen, he noted : “ Mr. J. B. Love 
collected a female at the Fink River, Northern Territory, on 12/2/1912, which 
he sent down to me ; whether it is referable to this subspecies ( macrorhynchus ) 
or not, I cannot be sure. Personally, I think it is more likely that it is the 
type form found in the Blue Mountains. It differs from stellatus in being 
much smaller, tail less red and more yellow. Barring almost absent below 
breast, spots about head larger, beak same as in stellatus .” 
Mr. J. P. Rogers’ notes read : “ The birds were fairly numerous at 
Marngle Creek, North-west Australia. A good many birds watered at a 
spring close to my camp every morning and evening. At Mungi a few were 
seen out on the desert, where they were feeding on the seeds of a stunted 
eucalyptus, under which the ground was littered with pieces of the seed 
vessels which had been cut to pieces by the birds. In the middle of July 
many large flocks were seen on the Fitzroy, among which were many young 
birds. These birds feed on the kernels of a tree known locally as * chestnut,’ 
a tree which bears large quantities of stony fruit, the stones of which resemble 
those of dates in shape and size and are very hard. When the birds are 
feeding in these trees, the sound of the breaking stones can be heard a 
considerable distance.” From Cooper’s Camp, Melville Island, he wrote : 
“ Nov. 1, 1911. These buds have been fairly numerous ever since I came 
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