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on the face. The naked skin round the eye is nearly circular in form 

 and of a pale blue colour ; the basal part of the crest-feathers is 

 reddish orange, with a slight tinge of lemon-yellow towards their 



Fig. 2. 



Head of Cacafva ditcorpsi. 



summit, which colour, however, is hardly seen unless the crest is 

 elevated. The wing- and tail-feathers are likewise stained in the 

 inner webs with pale lemon-colour. This bird I take to be Cacatua 

 ducorpsi, as already pointed out in my article above referred to, 

 and as also determined by Dr. Finsch, who himself saw and ex- 

 amined the two examples of this bird which we originally received 

 (cf. Finsch, Papag. i. p. 311). 



In the second bird (fig. 3), which we obtained by purchase on the 

 25th November, 1865, the lores and front are tinged with reddish, 

 and the crest is of a different shape from that of C. ducorpsi, having 

 its front feathers much more elongated than those immediately 

 behind them, so that when erected the crest is more pyramidal in 

 form. The naked space round the eye is nearly circular as in 

 C. ducorpsi, but white and not bluish. The crest-feathers are 

 rosy at their bases, and there is no yellow in the crest ; the inner 

 webs of the wing- and tail-feathers are lemon-yellow. This bird I 



