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makes no other nest than the vegetable mould formed by the 

 decay of the tree. It has three young at a time ; but its eggs 

 are unknown. 



The native name of the Funereal Cockatoo is Wy'la, so 

 called from the similitude of that word to the sound which it 

 makes. These also are not gregarious, except in small flocks 

 of not more than about half a dozen ; but they appear to be 

 extensively located in this extensive island. These also con- 

 struct their nests in a species of Eucalyptus. 



Cook's Cockatoo seems to be the Carat of the native New 

 Hollanders ; if so, it is a very shy bird. It scrapes the dirt 

 out of hollow boughs, and makes its nest in the manner 

 of the former species, which nest may be found by watching 

 the bird when it enters the hole in the tree where it is depo- 

 sited. It cuts off the fruit of two species of Persoonia, with- 

 out however eating it before it is ripe, to the great injury 

 and vexation of the natives. 



The short specific characters of these species, given in the 

 text, are sufficient to shew a general and very considerable 

 similarity. The little information we have on their habits 

 (more perhaps than we possess of most of the other spe- 

 cies,) bespeaks also as great a similarity in this respect. Our 

 figure is from a specimen which was several years ago in 

 Bullock's Museum. In it the broad red band across the tail 

 is not interrupted by small black bars, which exist in the 

 Banksian Cockatoo, properly so called. Both, however, 

 were considered varieties of one species, but M. M. Tem- 

 minck, Kuhl, Vigors, and Horsfield have treated them 

 as distinct ; we have, therefore, inserted a reimpression of 

 this figure, altering the name to that of Cook's Cockatoo, 

 leaving the trivial name of Banksian undivided in the other 

 species. 



The other species above mentioned, the Funereal Cocka- 



