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molt in the wing-quills, and only one (No. 181432, U.S.N.M., Decem- 

 ber 4, 1907) in the rectrices. Four others (No. 181431, U.S.N.M., 

 December 5, 1907; No. 181434, U.S.N.M., December 6, 1907; No. 

 181435, U.S.N.M., December 4, 1907; and No. 181436, U.S.N.M., 

 December 3, 1907) have a few pin-feathers on the hind neck, and all 

 l)ut one bird also on the foreneck. 

 Detailed measurements of all these specimens are as follows: 



Measuraneatii of specimens of Mascadivores rosaceus zaniydrus. 



' Measured in the llesh bv the collector. 



Type. 



Family KAKATOIDAE. 



KAKATOE PARVULUS ABBOTTI, new subspecies.* 



Suhspecijic characters. — In color like Kalcatoe parvulus parvulus, 

 from the island of Timor, but decidedly larger. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 181453, U.S.N.M.; Solombo 

 Besar Island, Java Sea, December 4, 1907; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Entire 

 plumage cream white, excepting the long recurved feathers of crest, 

 v/hich are picric yellow; the basal portion of inner webs of wing-quills, 

 and the greater part of the inner webs of the rectrices, which are 

 martins yellow; and the auriculars, which are slightl}^ tinged with 

 the same yellow; "bill and cere black." 



This new cockatoo is interesting as marking a new western limit 

 for the genus. Doctor Abbott reported it in hundreds on Solombo 

 Besar. He obtained eight specimens, all adults in full plumage, 

 though somewhat soiled. The principal individual variation consists 

 in the depth and extent of the yellow on the rectrices. Doctor Abbott 

 records the color of the iris as red, and of the bare skin about the 

 eyes as bluish white. Measurements of all the specimens follow. 



8 Named for Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



