38 NOTE ON THE HABITAT OF THE NAKED-EYED COCKATOO. 



One of the specimens referred to is twelve months old, the 

 other ten ; both are hardy and live well in confinement, their 

 owner having taken them from Burketown to Antwerp and back 

 before bringing them to Sydney. They are very tame and like to 

 be caressed, climbing on one's finger and gently nibbling it, and 

 already give promise of being good talkers, their enunciation of 

 the words " Halloo ! " " Pretty Boy ! " &c,, fragments of the 

 common acquired stock vocabulary of the family Cacatuidce, being 

 very clear and good, resembling that of Licmetis nasica. These 

 birds have the irides very dark brown ; bare space around and 

 below the eye leaden-blue ; bill whitish tinged with blue ; legs 

 and feet mealy-grey, and the younger one has only the lores 

 stained with red, and with no rosy bases to the feathers of the 

 crest, head, hind neck and upper portion of the breast; the naked 

 space too around the eye is more circular in form, agreeing with 

 the original description and figure of G. sanguinea, except in the 

 colour of the bare space around the eye, which is leaden-blue 

 instead of white, as figured by Gould in C. sanguinea, but to 

 which no reference is made in the description. Dr. Sclater, how- 

 ever, had a living specimen in the Zoological Gardens that had 

 been in confinement several years, and which he identified as G. 

 sanguinea, at the time he described G. gymnopis, but the exact 

 locality whence it came is not known. 



In the British Museum Catalogue of Psitlaci, Count Salvadori 

 gives the habitat of C. gymnopis, as " South Australia (also 

 Northern and North- Western Australia ?)." Now the range of 

 this species is known, the note of interrogation may be removed 

 from the latter localities, for in addition to the living examples 

 referred to from Northern Queensland there are four specimens 

 in the Macleayan Museum at the University ; two of them from 

 the Gulf of Carpentaria and two obtained by Spalding at Port 

 Darwin ; there is also a specimen in the Australian Museum 

 Collection, procured by E. J. Cairn, at Cambridge Gulf, N.W. 

 Australia, in 1886. 



