274 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Subfamily CACATUIN&. 
Genus pe te Viellot, 1817. 
Characters same as those given for the Family. 
234. CACATUA HAEMATUROPYGIA (P. L. S. Miiller). 
PHILIPPINE COCKATOO. 
Psittacus hematuropygius P. L. S. MULLER, Natursyst. Suppl. (1776), 77. 
Cacatua hematuropygia SaLvaporiI, 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-bu-cay, Ticao and Bohol; ca-lang’-ai, Lubang. 
Balabac (Steere, Everett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Steere Exp., 
Bourns & Worcester, Doherty, McGregor) ; Bohol (McGregor) ; Bongao (Everett) ; 
Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Cebu (Hverett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 
cester); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Eap., Bourns & Worcester); Lapac (G@wille- 
mard); Leyte (Hverett, Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer, 
Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 
(Steere Exp., McGregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester. 
Koch & Schadenberg, Goodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, 
Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Negros (Meyer, Everett, Bourns 
& Worcester, Keay, Whitehead); Nipa (Everett); Palawan (Steere, Lempriere, 
Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns € Worcester, White) ; Panaon (Everett) ; 
Panay (Bourns € Worcester) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Siquijor (Bourns 
& Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Burbidge); Tablas (Bourns & Worcester) ; Tawi 
Tawi (Bverett, Bourns & Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor). 
Adult (sexes alike).—White; under tail-coverts vermilion edged with 
white; inner webs 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; culmen from cere, 25 to 27; tarsus, 19 to 20. Iris bright red; 
naked skin around eyes, pale pink; bill dirty white; legs and nails bluish. 
The ear-coverts are usually tinged with vermilion and the bases of crest- 
feathers are suffused with sulphur-yellow but both 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 plumage 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 Masbate in May, 1888. 
“Tris 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, 
