]\Ir. T. Carter on Licmetis i)astiiiator. 027 



Totanns caUdris Bechst. Hedsliank. 

 Ardea minuta Liuu. Little Bittern. 

 '^ Platalta leucorudios Keys. Spoonbill. (Arguiiieguin.) 

 Phoenicoptcrus antiquorumTeinm. Flamingo. ('* Cliarco/' 

 M asp a! cm as.) 



Fuligula wp'oca Keys, et Bias. (Isleta.) 

 Fuligula nigra Degl. Common Scoter, (Canaria.) 

 Uria troile Latli. Common Guillemot, (Canaria.) 

 Alca minor Briss. Little Auk. (Canaria.) 



XXIX. — Notes on Licmetis pastinaior {Western Long-billed 

 Cockatoo) f. By Thomas Carter, M.B.O.U. (VYensley- 

 dale, Broome Hill, Western Australia). 



(Text-figures 11 & 12.) 



As tliis fine bird has, for some reason, quite disappeared 

 from the districts Avhere it formerly abounded, and seems to 

 be nearing extinction, I send the following notes upon it 

 and its present distribution. Of its life-history and habits 

 liardly anything appears to have been written in existing 

 ornithological literature. 



Gould, in his ' Handbook/ describes " the lores and bases 

 of the feathers of the head and front of neck " as being 

 scarlet, while Mr. A. G. North, in his Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, Special Catalogue No. I. (' Nests and Eggs of Birds 

 found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania '), gives salmon- 

 colour for these parts^ which agrees with the coloration of 

 my series of skins, excepting that the lores and facial 

 feathers in them are distinctly orange or orange-scarlet. 

 Gould also states that the naked space round the eye is 

 greenish blue, but in all the birds examined by me, both 

 alive and immediately after death, this bare skin was of a 

 blue colour, varying from a dull leaden shade to almost 



* In the Museum at Las Paliuas there is a Spoonbill labelled "Puerto 

 de Luz, 21 Oct. 1880." 



t See Campbell, ' Nests and Eg'gs of Australian Birds,' p. 6i*0. 



