268 Mr. ViGORs's a7id Dr. Horsfield's Description of the 



stronger- billed birds as the typical group of this familj-, and 

 shall commence our catalogue of the species in the Society's 

 collection with the Cockatoos, or the 



Subfam. Plyctolophixa. 

 Genus. Plyctolopuus. Vieill. 

 * Crista plicatili, acuminata, antrorsum torta. 



1. Galeritus. FLalhns; crista, rcmigum rcctricmnque latera- 



liiim pogoniis intcrnis, pteromatibiisqiic infcrioribiis sulphu- 



rcis. 

 Psittacus galeritus. Laf/i. Iiid Oru. p. 109- no. 80. Ku/tl, Nova 



Acta 4c. vol. 10. p. 87. no. 157. 

 Crested Cockatoo. White's Joarn. pi. in p. 237- Lath. Gen. 



Hist. ii. p. 205. no. 136". 



The following observations on this species are extracted from 

 ]\Ir. Caley's Notes. " This bird is called by the natives Cnr'azoay, 

 and also Cur'riang. I have met with it in large Hocks at the 

 conllux of the Grose and the Ilawkesbury rivers, below Mul- 

 go'ey on the former river, and in the long meadow near the 

 Nepean river. They are shy, and not easily approached. The 

 tlesh of the young ones is accounted good eating. I have heard 

 from the natives that it makes its nest in the rotten limbs of 

 trees, of nothing more than the vegetable mould formed by the 

 decayed parts of the bough ; that it has no more than two young 

 ones at a time ; and that the eggs are white without spots. The 

 natives first find where the nests are by the bird making Co torn 

 in an adjoining tree, which lies in conspicuous heaps on the 

 ground. ^ — Cotora is the bark stripped off the smaller branches, 

 and cut into small pieces.— When the young ones are nearly 

 Hedged the old birds cut a quantity of small branches from the 



adjoining 



