Cirrus@Austlit

Author's note: *When the forest trees come into bloom-sooner or later according to the goodness or badness of the season-the white cockatoo suddenly appear in some localities in vast number ; for the blooms of these forest trees, particularly those of the so-called apple, contain a good deal of saccharine matter, and it is upon these at this season that the cockatoo food. And while thus engaged, they will hang more or less thickly all about the wide-spread boughs of an apple-tree, for instance, like large patches and detached fragments of snow. As many as a thousand, perhaps, may be seen hanging in this manner about the umbrage of half a dozen such trees standing clumped together, and as many as five thousand, or more, similarly disposed, or multitudinously drifting hither aud thither in flight, within the compass of a couple of English miles. C. H.