274 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Subfamily CACATUIN^^. 

 Genus CACATUA Alellot, 1817. 

 Characters same as those given for the Family. 



234. CACATUA H/GM ATUROPYGI A (P. L. S. Miiller). 



PHILIPPINE COCKATOO. 



Psittacits hcematitropygius P. L. S. Mxjller, Natuisyst. Suppl. ( 1776), 77. 

 Cacatua hcematuropygia Salvadori. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 20, 



130; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900). 2, 11; McGregor and Worcester, 



Hand-List (1906), 48. 



Ca-ta-la, Manila; a-bii-cay, Tleao and Boliol ; ca-hing'-ai, Lubang. 



Balabac (Steere, Everett); Bantayan {McGregor); Basilan {Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d- Worcester, Doherty, McGregor) ; Bohol {McGregor) ; Bongao {Everett) ; 

 Calaniianes (Bourns d Worcester) ; Cebii {Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 

 cester) ; Gnimaras {Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns d- Worcester); Lapac (Guille- 

 mard) ; Leyte {Everett, tSteere Exp.); Lubang {McGregor) ; Luzon {Meyer, 

 Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead. McGregor) ; Marinduque {Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 

 {Steerc Exp.. McGregor) ; Mindanao {Everett, tiicere Exp., Bourns d Worcester. 

 Koch d Schadenberg. GoodfeUou\ Velestino) : Mindoro {Steere Exp., t'Schinacker, 

 Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Negros {Meyer, Everett, Bourns 

 d Worcester. Keay, Whitehead) ; Nipa {Everett) ; Palawan {Steere, Lempriere, 

 Whitehead. Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panaon {Everett) ; 

 Panay {Bourns d Worcester) ; Sam»r {Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Siquijor {Bourns 

 d Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu {Burbidge) ; Tablas {Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi 

 Tawi {Everett, Bourns d Worcester); Ticao (McGregor). 



Adult (se.res (iIiJ>-r). — AVliite: under tail-coverts vermilion edged with 

 white; inner wehs of remiges and rectrices sulphur-yellow much deeper 

 on the latter and in some specimens tinged with red; sexes similar. 

 Length, 300 to 350; three specimens measure, wing, 210 to 218; tail, 112 

 to 117: cubnen from cere, 25 to 27; tarsus, 19 to 20. Iris hriglit red; 

 naked skin around eyes, pale pink; hill dirty white; legs and nails bluish. 



The ear-coverts are usually tinged with vermilion and the liases of crest- 

 feathers are suffused with sulphur-yellow but l)oth of these characters are 

 variable. Bourns and Worcester killed two specimens in Panay in which 

 "the plumage showed a peculiar faint pinkish tinge." 



The "catala" is usually met with in small flocks either in forest or 

 fields; its presence is proclaimed by the conspicuous white |)lunuige and 

 harsh note. In the island of Ticao we observed this species nesting in 

 holes in dead trees but we secured only young birds; these resembled 

 the adult. Bourns and Worcester took nestlings in ^lasbate in May, 1888. 



"Iris of females usually blood-red, sometimes brown. We are inclined 

 to think red the normal color in fully adult females. Iris in males very 

 dark brown to black; bare skin around the eye creamy white; bill drab, 



