THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 305 



Pheasant Coucal. — A native of New South Wales, 

 and of local occurrence there, keeping for the most part to 

 low-lying places. It has the configuration of the cuckoo, 

 but makes a nest, and incubates its own three or four greyish 

 white, round eggs. 



It is of a brownish grey colour, and the tail is tipped 

 with white ; unlike the Eudyiianiis, it is a ground-loving 

 bird, and makes a large domed nest of sticks under some 

 convenient bush. 



THE PARROTS, 



Australia, with its dependencies, is decidedly the land of 

 parrots, and to more than glance at some of the more 

 prominent species that are there to be met with is absolutely 

 out of the question in the space at our disposal. Indeed, 

 for the same reason, we cannot even enumerate them all. 



The}'' have been much divided by writers, and the 

 London Zoological Society, in their list, have made three 

 distinct families of them, while the great German ornitho- 

 logist. Dr. Carl Russ, has classed them all together, under 

 the general name of Psittacidce. We have, however, adopted 

 the "Zoo " classification modified as follows : — 



Family — Psittacidcr. 

 S ub-f ami ly — CacatuincE. 

 Genus — 



1. Cacatua. C. galerita. Great Lemon-crested 



Cockatoo. 



C. iriton. Triton Cockatoo. 



C. leadbeateri. Leadbeater's Cockatoo. 



C. sanguinea. Blood-stained Cockatoo. 



C. gyninopis. Bare-eyed Cockatoo. 



C. rosdcapilla. Roseate Cockatoo. 



