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like those of the head, ear coverts blackish brown ; vibrissae long, 

 black, reaching to the outer margin of the culmen ; the coverts of 

 the shoulders and margins of the wings, very dark brown, the 

 bars scarcely visible, the median and greater coverts of a much 

 lighter brown, and the bars almost white on some of the outer 

 webs, primary coverts blackish brown, no bars visible ; quills 

 blackish brown with 6 or 7 bars of a lighter tint, the bars paler 

 towards the tips of the secondaries; under coverts fulvous, darkest 

 on the edges and shoulders, all closely barred with dark fulvous 

 brown, tail blackish brown with 8 or 9 brown bands lightest at 

 the base, under surface tinged with ashy, and the bars less 

 defined ; all the under surface barred with light rufous brown or 

 fulvous, the interspaces and base of the feathers creamy white, 

 the fulvous bars, bounded on either side with a narrow blackish 

 brown line, usually four bars on each feather. The bars have a 

 more fawn or yellowish fulvous tint, having lost the narrow brown 

 conterminous borders on the abdomen and flanks, where the 

 bases of the feathers are white ; legs fulvous sparingly barred 

 with brown ; under tail coverts white, fulvous towards the end 

 and there crossed with three or four broken hastate bands of 

 fulvous brown ; feet yellow, bristles orange ; bill bluish horn 

 colour at the base, white at the tip ; eyelid bluish, iris yellow. 



Total length 16 to 18 inches, wing 11*5 in., tarsus 1*5, mid. 

 toe (s.u.) 1*7, its claw 1-2 ; hind toe 1 in., its claw 1 in., tail 8*5. 



In the wings the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th quills are nearly 

 equal and longest, the 7th nearly equal to the 3rd. From Mr. 

 Broadbent's collection. 



PICARIiE. 



(Psittaci). 



CACATUID^. 



16. — Cacatda TRITON, Temm. 



I believe I am correct in assigning the small white cockatoo 

 (otherwise like G. galerita) to this species. 



They were found in large flocks throughout the district. The 

 crest in this species is proportionately larger than in G. galerita. 



