250 PSITTACIDiE. 



New South Wales. The nest is a bulky structure of dried leaves 

 and grasses rounded and covered over above, with an opening on 

 both sides, from which the head of the female on one side, and her 

 tail on the other protrudes while sitting. It is usually placed in a 

 tussock of long coarse grass. Eggs three or four in number for a 

 sitting, an average specimen in the Dobroyde Collection taken by 

 Mr. John Macgillivray, near Grafton on the Clarence River, in 

 October 1864, is rounded in form, and of a dull dirty-white, having 

 a thin coating of lime on it, one side showing scratches as if done 

 by the bird while sitting. Length (A) 1-35 x 1-13 inch. 



Sab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 

 District, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South 

 Wales, and North- West Australia. (Ramsay.) 



Order SCAN SORES. 



Family PSITTACID^. 



Genus GACATUA, Vieillot. 



1 OAOATUA GALERITA, Latham. 



Great Sulplmr-orested Cockatoo. 

 Gould, Hcmdhh. Bds. AusL, Vol. ii., sp. 391, p. 2. 



This bird is universally dispersed over the whole of Australia. 

 It resorts to the hollow branches or boles of trees to nest and 

 deposit its eggs, which are two in number, on the decaying wood 

 usually found in such places, they are pure white, and vary in 

 form from oval to pointed oval. Length (A) 1'65 x 1'21 inch; 

 (B) 1"63 X 1*19 inch. A pair in the Dobroyde Collection measure : 

 length (A) 1-62 x 1-18 inch; (B) 1-61 x 1-2 inch. 



August and the three following months constitutes the breeding 

 season of this species. 



