12 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



a layer of rotten wood at the bottom of holes in the larger 

 gum-trees. 



The sexes are alike in colour and size. 



The general plumage white, washed with pale brimstone- 

 yellow on the under surface of the wing, and with bright 

 brimstone-yellow on the under surface of the tail ; line across 

 the forehead and lores scarlet ; the feathers of the head, neck, 

 and breast are also scarlet at the base, showing through the 

 white, particularly on the breast ; irides light brown ; bill 

 white ; naked skin round the eye Hght blue ; legs and feet 

 dull olive-grey. 



Sp. 396. LICMETIS PASTINATOR, Gould. 

 Western Long-billed Cockatoo. 

 Licmetis pastinator, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part viii. p. 175. 



All ornithologists now admit that there are two species of 

 the genus Licmetis ; one inhabiting the western and the other 

 the eastern portions of Australia. Living examples of both 

 have been for some time in the Menagerie of the Zoological 

 Society of London, where their differences are far more appa- 

 rent than in the skins which have from time to time been 

 sent to this country. 



Lores scarlet; general plumage white; the base of the 

 feathers of the head and front of the neck scarlet, showing 

 through, and giving those parts a stained appearance ; the 

 basal half of the inner webs of the primaries, the inner webs 

 of all the other feathers of the wing, and the inner webs of 

 the tail-feathers beautiful brimstone-yellow; naked space 

 round the eye greenish blue ; irides light brown ; bill white ; 

 feet dull olive grey. 



Genus CALYPTORHYNCIIUS, Vig. and Horsf. 



The members of this genus are strictly arboreal, and are 

 evidently formed to live upon the seeds of the Ba7iJma, 



