268 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. HonsrriErp's Description of the 
stronger-billed birds as the typical group of this family, and 
shall commence our catalogue of the species in the Society's 
collection with the Cockatoos, or the 
Subfam. PLyYcTOLOPHINA. 
Genus. Prvcrorormnvus. Vieill. 
* Crista plicatili, acuminatá, antrorsum tortá. 
1. GALERITUS. Pl. albus; cristá, remigum rectricumque latera- 
lium pogoniis internis, pteromatibusque inferioribus sulphu- 
reis. 
Psittacus galeritus. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 109. no. 80. Kuhl, Nova 
Acta §c. vol. 10. p. 87. no. 157. 
Crested Cockatoo. Whites Journ. pl. in p. 237. Lath. Gen. 
Hist. ii. p. 205. no. 136. 
The following observations on this species are extracted from 
Mr.Caley's Notes. “This bird is called by the natives Car’away, 
and also Cur'riang. I have met with it in large flocks at the 
conflux of the Grose and the Hawkesbury rivers, below Mul- 
go’ey on the former river, and in the long meadow near the 
Nepean river. They are shy, and not easily approached. The 
flesh of the young ones is accounted good eating. I have heard 
from the natives that it makes its nest in the rotten limbs of 
trees, of nothing more than the vegetable mould formed by the 
decayed parts of the bough ; that it has no more than two young 
ones at a time ; and that the eggs are white without spots. The 
natives first find where the nests are by the bird making Co'tora 
in an adjoining tree, which lies in conspicuous heaps on the 
ground.—Co’tora is the bark stripped off the smaller branches, 
and cut into small pieces.— When the young ones are nearly 
fledged the old birds cut a quantity of small branches from the 
adjoining 
