VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
millaken for it by fuperficial examiners. Here we pitched 
our tents (without which the governor never travelled) for 
the night, near a fwamp, out of which we were fupplied 
with water, not, indeed, either of the beft or clearefl: kind. 
The night being cold, and a heavy dew falling, we kept up 
a large fire before the tents, which, though in one refpe£l 
an excellent precaution, far from chafing away, feemed to 
allure the mufquitos, which tormented us inexprefiibly 
during the whole night. We this day difcovered the 
Bankfian Cockatoo. This fpecies was firft defcribed by Mr. 
Latham^ in his feventh volume or fupplement to the Ge- 
neral Synopfs of Birdsy and the one in the plate annexed 
differs from that in fome few particulars. — In Mr.' 
Ljathajn\ figure the general colour is dulky black, the fea- 
thers of the head longer than the reft, forming a creft ; 
and each of thofe on the head, back of the neck, and 
major part of the wings, have a fpot of buff-colour at the 
tips ; the under parts of the body barred with narrow bars 
of buff-colour ; the tail is black at the bottom and ends of 
the feathers, but the middle of a fine red, barred irregu- 
larly with black. — In our fpecimen, the general colour of 
the bird is olive, or rufty black ; the head feathers pretty 
T 2 long, 
