KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:o |7. 63 
likes to keep to the ground and was found both in high and low eucalyptus-woods. 
When it is in the trees, its appearance, both on account of the colour of its plumage 
as well the elegance of its deportment, has something old-fashioned and aristocratic, 
which causes it to be one of the most wonderful birds of the bush. I have seen it 
dig in the earth with its big beak, possibly in order to find tubers or such things. 
(Y. LAURELL Pphot.) 
Fig. 22. A native at Mowla Downs, decorated with feathers of Cacatua galerita. 
Cacatua galerita LATH. 
Math. handl. n:r 320. I ad. Nooncanbah, Kimb. ?/12 1910, moult. 
One bird was shot at Nooncanbah, Fitzroy (WIiDELL). The natives at Mowla 
Downs decorated themselves with tufts from the head of this bird. The species 
evidently lives here also, though I did not succeed in finding it. Is said to be 
smaller than the forms which are found more to the east. 
Cacatua leadbeateri aberrans (SÖDERBERG). 
Plumage. — Back, wings, tail, upper and lower tail-coverts white, neck and 
breast >»zart rosa» (n:r 135: 4 Reporte de couleurs), belly with fainter tinge of the 
