CACATUIN.E. 
wasteful habits, they destroy much more than they consume. Their flight is heavy and noisy, and from their 
extreme shyness it is diflicult to approach them. They are very destructive to certain trees, by cutting off the smaller 
branches and the unripe fruits. The eggs, which are usually two or three in number, are laid by the female in holes 
of decayed trees, on the bare woody mould which the birds make in forming the hollows. 
1. C. funereus (Shaw), Vig. & Horsf. Shaw's Nat. Misc. pi. 186., 
Mag.de Zool. 1834. t. 24. 
2. C. Banksii (Lath.) Vig. & Horsf. Lath. Syn. Suppl.pl. lOp., 
Phill. Voy. pi. in p. 26?. — Psittacus magnificus Shaw, Nat. Misc. 
pi. 50., Mag. de Zool. 1 834. t. 26. ; Banksianus australis Less. 
3. C. Cookii (Temm.) Vig. & Horsf. Nov. Act. &c. x. t. 3. — 
Psittacus Leachii Kuhl. 
4. C. Temminckii (Kuhl), White, Journ. pi. p. 139- — Psittacus 
Solandri Temm. Mag. de Zool. 1834. t.27, 28. ; Cacatua viridis Vieill. 
5. C. Baudinii Lear, Parrots, pi. 6. Mag. de Zool. 1834. t. 25. 
6. C. stellatus Wagl. Monogr. Psitt. Handl. Akad. Miinchen, 
1832. p. 685. t. 27. 
7. C. macrorhynchus Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1842. 138. 
8. C. xanthonotus Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1837. 151. 
9. C. naso Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1836. 106. 
10. C. galeatus (Lath.) Vig. & Horsf. Lath. Syn. of Birds, Suppl. 
ii.pl. 140. — Psittacus phaenicocephalus Mus. Paris.; Callocephalon 
australe Less. Zool. Thetis, t. 47, 48. ; Type of Corydon Wagl. 
(1830). 
11. ? C.fulgidus (Less.) Tr. d'Orn. p. 181. 
Nestor Wagl.* 
Bill much lengthened, the sides compressed, especially near the culmen, vp-hich is rounded and much 
arched to the tip, which is very long and acute ; the base of the lower mandible partly hidden by the 
projecting feathers, and the sides rather compressed, with the gonys nearly flat and ascending towards 
the tip ; the nostrils moderate, rounded, and placed in the cere. Wings long and pointed, with the 
third and fourth quills the longest. Tail moderate, and nearly even at the end, with the feathers firm 
and broad, and the shafts prolonged beyond the web. Tarsi as long as the inner anterior toe, and covered 
with small scales. Toes moderate, the two outer ones the longest, and all covered with small irregular 
scales. 
New Zealand and the continent of Australia are the countries of the two species that at present form this genus. 
They are usually found in the trees seeking the nuts and berries, on which they subsist, as also on bulbous roots which 
they dig up from the swampy ground. In the morning and evening they are very noisy and querulous. 
1. N. australis (Shaw), Lev. Mus. pi. p. 87. — Psittacus me- , 2. 'S. productus (Gould), Proc. Z. S. 1836. 19. 
ridionalis Gmel. ; P. Nestor Lath. ; P. hypopolius Forst. Desc. 
Anim. p. 72., Icon. ined. pL 50. ; Nestor novae zealandiae Less. 
Gould, B. of Austr. pi. 
Strigops. 
Bill higher than broad, slightly compressed, and grooved on the sides; the culmen much curved to the 
tip, which is acute; the lateral margins dentatedin the middle; the lower mandible with the gonys broad, 
rounded, and much grooved longitudinally, and the base of both mandibles covered by the basal feathers, 
with the shaft of each prolonged into hairs ; the nostrils basal, lateral, large, and rounded. Wings 
rather short and rounded, with the fifth and sixth quills equal and longest. Tail moderate, weak, and 
much rounded, with the end of each feather rather pointed, and the shafts projecting beyond the web. 
* Wagler established this genus in 1830 {Abhandl. Akad. Miinchen, 1832, p. 505.). Centrourus (1837) of Mr. Swainson is synonymous. 
