PARROT. 203 



of Banksian Cockatoo, and with due attention to what M. Tem- 

 minck has said on the subject, we do not hesitate still to confess our 

 uncertainty in respect to them. It should appear, from the different 

 make and shape, as well as colour of the bill in the Banksian and 

 Cook's Cockatoos, that these two are most probably distinct, but how 

 far the others mentioned as varieties, of one or the other, are really 

 so, or young ones in imperfect plumage, yet remains in uncertainty ; 

 nor have we sufficient grounds for ascertaining that the Funereal one 

 does not belong to one of the former, although we have here set it 

 down for a distinct species. It must be remarked, that individuals of 

 all of them vary much in size. 



132— GREAT WHITE COCKATOO. 



Psittacus cristatus, Lid. Orn.'u 103. Lin. i. 143. Gm. Lin. i. 331. Bor. Nat. ii. 90. 



t. 5. B. Rail, p. 30. Will. 75. t. 15. Id. Engl. 112. § 1. pi. 15. Klein, 24. 6. 



Gabin de Madrid, ii. p. 5. Lam. 38. Johnst. av. pi. 15. f. 4. 

 Cacatua, Bris. iv. 204. t. 81. Id. Svo. ii. 99. 

 Kakatoes a huppe blanche, Buf. vi. 92. PI. enl. 263. 

 Broad-crested Cockatoo, Shaw's Zool. viii. 478. pi. 72. 

 Great white Cockatoo, Gen. Syn. i. 256. 



SIZE of a Fowl ; length eighteen inches. Bill blackish ; cere 

 black ; irides very dark ; space round the eyes naked, white ; general 

 colour of plumage quite white, except the greater quills and side 

 feathers of the tail, which are brimstone-coloured for halfway within, 

 next the base ; on the head a large folded crest five inches in length, 

 but the crown itself is quite bare ; the feathers of the neck, too, are 

 loose and flowing, so that when the bird erects the crest, the head 

 appears of a large size ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Molucca Islands, and perhaps Sumatra, there called 

 Kaykay. 



