252 psiTTAdiba!. 



Genus LICMETIS, Wagler. 



3 LICMETIS NASICA, Temminck. 



(L. tenuirostris, Wagler.) 

 Long-billed Cockatoo. 

 Gould, Sandbl. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 395, p, 11. JLl^ '■ 



The Long-billed Oockatoo usually exercises great care in placing 

 its nest out of the way of human enemies, choosing one of the 

 most inaccessible trees in the dead branch of which it deposits its 

 eggs, which are white and three in number, oval, and rather 

 pointed at the smaller end ; shell inclined to be rough, an average 

 specimen measures : — length 1 -4 x 1 '1 inch. 



The breeding season commences in August and lasts during the 

 two following months. 



Hah. Gulf of Carpentaria, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 

 and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Genus CALYPTOEHYNCHUS, Vigors and Horsfield. 



CALYPTORHYNCHUS NASO, Gould. 

 Western Black Cockatoo. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust , Vol. ii., sp. 399, p. 17. 



" This species breeds in the holes of trees, where it deposits its 

 snow-white eggs on the soft dead wood. They are generally 

 placed in trees so difficult of access that even the natives dislike 

 to climb them. Those given to Gilbert by the son of the colonial 

 chaplain were taken by a native from a hole in a very high white 

 gum, in the last week of October ; they are white, one inch and 

 eight lines long by one inch and four lines broad." (Gould, 

 Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. p. 17.) 



Hob. West Australia. 



