YELLOW-BANDED PARROT. 
the bare wood-dust. On the following day, just before leaving, we visited a 
nest which we cut open on the 5th (to find the nest ready to lay in) ; this time 
there were two eggs.” 
Orton and Sandland, writing on the birds of Moora, West Australia (Emu, 
Vol. XIII., p. 77, 1913), record : Barnadius semitorquatus. Common west 
of Moora. None seen within ten miles of the town. Barnardius zonarius. 
One of the commonest birds. An unmitigated pest in orchards.” 
Reporting upon the birds collected by the Horn Expedition to Central 
Australia, North remarked : “ Two specimens marked females are much 
brighter in colour than others obtained in the southern portion of the colony,” 
adding Keartland’s notes: “Some surprise was felt at the wide extent of 
country over which this beautiful Parakeet was found, the first pair being seen 
at Macumba Creek. They were afterwards found throughout the trip, where- 
ever water existed. At Stevenson’s Creek two black boys were preparing 
their supper, which consisted of nestlings of this species, which they had taken 
from the spouts of the eucalypts along its margin. On 12th May, whilst resting 
at Adminga Creek, a young bird, with its yellow bill denoting its age, and 
apparently enjoying its first fiy, fluttered on to a branch close to our party. 
I then saw, and afterwards confirmed, that many of the young ones are quite 
as brilliant in plumage as the mature birds. Although generally in pairs, flocks 
of six or seven are not uncommon, probably being the parent birds and young 
brood. Their chief food is grass-seed, but they also display great activity in 
climbing amongst the foliage in search of blossom.” 
This Central Australian form was named B. z. myrtce by Captain S. A. 
White, who wrote me : “ This is a larger and more brightly plumaged bird in 
comparison to B. z. zonarius : it is fairly plentiful on all gum creeks and rivers 
between Oodnadatta and the MacDonnell Ranges, and between Oodnadatta 
and the Musgrave and Everard Ranges they were often seen feeding upon the 
ground, picking up fallen acacia seeds.” 
In the Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr ., Vol. XXXVIII., 1914, p. 427, Captain 
White had observed : “ Barnardus zonarius (1). This bird undoubtedly differs 
greatly in its bright plumage from our southern birds and just as much from 
Barnardius zonarius occidentals North. We met with this beautiful parrot 
all through the expedition : where there was water in the gum-fined creeks, 
so sure this bird would be found.” 
In the Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 187, 1915, this was emphasized by Captain 
White: “ Barnardius zonarius subsp.? This is the same subspecies which is 
found from Oodnadatta to the Macdonnell Ranges.” (That is in the Musgrave 
and Everard Ranges.) 
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