PLYCTOLOPHUS GALERITUS, Fig. 8f Horsf. 



Plyct. albus ; crista, remigum rectricumque later alium pogoniis internis, pteromatibusque inferioribus 

 sulphureis ; rostro nigro ; pedibus brunneis. 



Long. tot. 20 unc; alee, 14 ; caudce, 8 ; tarsi, 1. 



All the plumage white, with the exception of the elongated occipital crest, which is deep sulphur 

 yellow, and the ear-coverts, centre of the under surface of the wing, and the basal portion of the inner 

 webs of the tail-feathers, which are pale sulphur vellow ; bill black ; feet brownish black. 



Syn. Psittacus galeritus, Lath. Ind. Orn., p. 109, No. 80. — Kuhl, Nova Acta, &c, vol. x. p. 87, 

 No. 157. 



Crested Cockatoo, White's Journ., pi. in p. 237. — Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 205, no. 136. 

 Great Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 479. 



Plyctolophus galeritus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 268. — Vig. in Lear's 111. 



Psitt., pi. 3. — Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. p. 108. 

 Cacatua galerita, Vieill. — Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., p. 694. 



Habitat. Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, &c. 



