Natural History
Natural History
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Powerful bird, while the members of the genus Nasiterna do not possess the bulk of a sparrow. The White Cockatoos are generally seen in this country in a state of captivity, but they form an interesting feature of wild Australian bird-life, as may be seen from COCKATOOS PIGMY PARROTS. 329 the following note given by Gould: "The crops and stomachs of those killed were very muscular, and contained seeds, grain, native bread (a species of fungus), small tuberous and bulbous roots, and in most inst...ances large stones. As may be readily imagined, this bird is not regarded with favour by the agriculturist, in whose fields of newly -sown grain and ripening maize it commits the greatest devastation ; it is consequently hunted and shot down wherever it is found, a circumstance which tends much to lessen its numbers. It evinces a decided preference for the open plains and cleared lands, rather than for the dense brushes near the coast ; and, except when feeding or reposing on the trees after a repast, the presence of a flock, which sometimes amounts to thousands, is certain to be indicated by their screaming notes, the discordance of which may be easily conceived by those who have heard the peculiarly loud, piercing, grating scream of the bird in captivity, always remembering the immense increase of din occasioned by the large number of birds emitting their harsh notes at the same moment ; still, I considered this annoyance amply compensated for by their sprightly actions and the life their snowy forms imparted to the dense and never- varying green of the Australian forest a feeling participated in by Sir Thomas Mitchell, who says, * amidst the umbrageous foliage, forming dense masses of shade, the White Cockatoos sported like spirits of light.
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Powerful bird, while the members of the genus Nasiterna do not possess the bulk of a sparrow. The White Cockatoos are generally seen in this country in a state of captivity, but they form an interesting feature of wild Australian bird-life, as may be seen from COCKATOOS PIGMY PARROTS. 329 the following note given by Gould: "The crops and stomachs of those killed were very muscular, and contained seeds, grain, native bread (a species of fungus), small tuberous and bulbous roots, and in most inst...ances large stones. As may be readily imagined, this bird is not regarded with favour by the agriculturist, in whose fields of newly -sown grain and ripening maize it commits the greatest devastation ; it is consequently hunted and shot down wherever it is found, a circumstance which tends much to lessen its numbers. It evinces a decided preference for the open plains and cleared lands, rather than for the dense brushes near the coast ; and, except when feeding or reposing on the trees after a repast, the presence of a flock, which sometimes amounts to thousands, is certain to be indicated by their screaming notes, the discordance of which may be easily conceived by those who have heard the peculiarly loud, piercing, grating scream of the bird in captivity, always remembering the immense increase of din occasioned by the large number of birds emitting their harsh notes at the same moment ; still, I considered this annoyance amply compensated for by their sprightly actions and the life their snowy forms imparted to the dense and never- varying green of the Australian forest a feeling participated in by Sir Thomas Mitchell, who says, * amidst the umbrageous foliage, forming dense masses of shade, the White Cockatoos sported like spirits of light.
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