INSESSORES. 



pale sulphur-yellow ; irides and bill black ; orbits white ; feet 

 greyish brown. 



Sp. 392. CACATUA LEADBEATERI. 



Leadbeater's Cockatoo. 



Plyctolophus leadbeateri, Vig. in Proc. of Comm. of Sci. and Corr. of 

 Zool. Soc, part i. p. 61. 



enjthropterus, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 302. 



Cacatua leadbeateri, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., p. 693. 

 Kakadoe crista tricolorata, Bourj. de St.-Hil. Perr., tab. 77. 

 Lopkochroa leadbeaterij Bouap. Compt. Bend, de FAcad. Sci., 1857, 



p. 



It It 



Jak-kul-yak-kul, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western 



Australia. 



Pink Cockatoo, Colonists of Swan River. 



Cacatua leadbeateri, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v. pi. 2. 



This beautiful species of Cockatoo enjoys a wide range over 

 the southern portions of the Australian continent; it never 

 approaches very near the sea, but evinces a decided preference 

 for the belts of lofty gums and scrubs clothing the sides of 

 the rivers of the interior of the country ; it annually visits the 

 Toodyay district of Western Australia, and breeds at Gawler, 

 in South Australia. On reading the works of Sturt and 

 Mitchell, I find that both those travellers met with it in the 

 course of their explorations, particularly on the banks of the 

 rivers Darling and Murray ; in fact, most of the interior 

 districts between New South Wales and Adelaide are in- 

 habited by it : but as yet no specimen has been received either 

 from the north or north-west coasts. 



It must be admitted that this species is the most beautiful 

 and elegant of the genus yet discovered, and it will conse- 

 quently ever be most highly prized for the cage and the aviary ; 

 it appears to bear confinement as well as any of its congeners; 

 in disposition it is not so sprightly and animated, but it is 



