274 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Subfamily CACATUIN^E. 

 Genus CACATUA Viellot, 1817. 

 Characters same as those given for the Family. 



234. CACATUA H/EMATUROPYGIA (P. L. S. Miiller). 

 PHILIPPINE COCKATOO. 



Psittacus hcematuropygius P. L. S. MILLER, Natursyst. Suppl. (L776), 77. 

 Cacatua hcematuropygia SALVADOBI, 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 (McOregor)', Basilan (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d Worcester, Doherty, McOregor) ; Bohol (McOregor) ; Bongao (Everett) ; 

 Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester) ; Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Wor- 

 cester) ; Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Lapac (Ouille- 

 mard) ; Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp.); Lubang (McOregor); Luzon (Meyer, 

 Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McOregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate 

 (Steere Exp., McOregor) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester. 

 Koch d Schadenberg, Ooodfellow, Celestino) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker. 

 Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, McOregor) ; Negros (Meyer, Everett, Bourns 

 d Worcester, Keay, Whitehead); Nipa (Everett); Palawan (Steere, Lempriere, 

 Whitehead, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panaon (Everett) ; 

 Panay (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead) ; Siquijor (Bourns 

 d Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (-Burbidge) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Tawi 

 Tawi (Everett, Bourns d Worcester) ; Ticao (McOregor). 



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. 



"Iris of females usually blood-red, sometimes brown. We are inclined 

 to think red the normal color in fully adult female?. Iris in males very 

 dark brown to black; bare skin around the eye creamy white; bill drab, 



