THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
1829-32. London, 1833). Bussell, "wilting of a journey that he made from 
Augusta to the Vasse River says that ‘Cockatoos were in greater multitudes 
(at the Vasse) than I have ever witnessed before, white and black 
(Stirling, £.c.)\” 
G. F. Moore in his Diary of ten years’ eventful life of an early settler in 
Western Australia (London, 1884) writes, besides numerous other references: 
“ March, 1831. Guildford. The White Cockatoos are very numerous, and 
now feed upon the flower of the red gumtree (growing beside his house) which 
lately came into blossom.” “ The White Cockatoo screams like a clucking 
hen disturbed from her nest.” April 4, 1832. “ No two birds can be 
more different in outward appearance than Crows and Cockatoos (obviously 
white), yet in their habits they are similar ; they go in flocks, call and give 
the alarm to one another, and fly off with a noise equal to that of a rookery.” 
Sept. 14, 1832. “ The Cockatoos are gregarious and migratory ; at some 
periods of the year few are to be seen ; at other times they are seen in 
large and frequent flocks.” 
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