OACATUA. 



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Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and 

 South- West Australia, South Coast New Guinea. {Bamsay.) 



3 CAOATUA LEADBEATERI, Vigors. 



Leadbeater's Cockatoo. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 392, p. 5. 322" ^- 



Mr. K. H. Bennett found this handsome bird breeding plentifully 

 in the interior of N ew South Wales, between the Lachlan and the 

 Darling Rivers. Like all other members of this genus it breeds 

 in the hollow limbs of trees, usually of a lofty Eucalyptus. The 

 eggs are three in number for a sitting, oval in shape, white ; a set 

 taken on September the 5th 1884, measures as follows : — length 

 (A);i-38 X 1-1 inch; (B) 1-39 x 1 inch ; (C) 1-41 x 1-12 inch. 



This species breeds during the months of August, September, 

 and October. 



Hah. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 

 West and South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 



3 CACATUA ROSEICAPILLA, Yieillot. 



Rose-breasted Cockatoo. ' 



Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 394, p. 8. 33Z7 3 



" Like all the members of this section the Rose Cockatoo nests 

 in the hollow branches of large trees, laying its eggs on the debris 

 of decaying wood usually found in such places, they are three in 

 number, white, rather oblong in form and slightly granular ; 

 length (A) 1-4x1 -05 inch ; (B) 1 -4 x 1 -04 inch." (Bamisay, P.L.S., 

 N.S. W., Vol. vii., p. 53.) 



Hah. Derby, North- West Australia, Port Darwin and Port 

 Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 



