6 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



much less noisy, a circumstance tending to enhance rather 

 than to decrease our partiahty for it. 



Few birds more enhven the monotonous hues of the 

 Austrahan forests than this beautiful species, whose " pink- 

 coloured wings and glowing crest," says Sir T. Mitchell, 

 " might have embellished the air of a more voluptuous 

 region." 



Its note is more plaintive than that of C. galerita, and 

 does not partake of the harsh grating sound peculiar to that 

 species. 



General plumage white ; forehead, front and sides of the 

 neck, centre of the under surface of the wing, middle of the 

 abdomen, and the basal portion of the inner webs of the tail- 

 feathers tinged with rose-colour, becoming of a rich salmon- 

 colour under the wing ; feathers of the occipital crest crimson 

 at the base, with a yellow spot in the centre and white at the 

 tip; bill light horn-colour; feet dark brown. 



The sexes are nearly equal in size ; but the female has the 

 yellow spots in the centre of the crest more conspicuous and 

 better defined than the male, whose crest, although larger, 

 is not so diversified in colour as that of the female ; on the 

 other hand, the salmon tint of the under surface is much 

 more intense in the male than in the female. 



Sp. 393. CACATUA SANGUINEA, Gould. 

 Blood-stained Cockatoo, 



Cacatua sanguinea, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part x. p. 138. 

 Eolopkus sanguineus, Bonap. Compt. Rend, de TAcad. Sci., 1857, 



P- • 



Cacatua sanguinea, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 3. 



The circumstance of this species never having been cha- 

 racterized until I described it in the 'Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society,' above quoted, may doubtless be attributed 

 to its being an inhabitant of the north-west coasts, portions 



