Order III. SCANSORES. 
Family II. Psittacidje. 
The fifth Subfamily, 
CACATUINiE, or Cockatoos, 
have the Bill generally large, of various length, broad at the bate, more or less compressed on the sides, 
and the culmen usually much arched to the tip, which is very acute; the Wmgs generally rather ong 
and pointed ; the Tail more or less long, broad, and mostly even ; the Tarsi short, robust, and coverec 
with small scales ; the Toes unequal. 
Microglossum Geoffr* 
i /an tl-io oi/Uq • the culmen much curved to the tip, which is lengthened 
Bill very large, much compressed on the sides , tne cuimcn 
and very acnte^nd the lateral margins of the upper mandible bidentatcd ; the lower 
with the gonys broad, flattened, and much emarginated on each side near the tip ; the nostrils place 
the cere, which is covered with short erect feathers concealing the opening. Wng. lengthened. Tad 
rather long and even. Tarsi very short, and covered with small scales. Toes covered ^ 
scales, the two outer very long and nearly equal. The cheeks and the front of the throat denude 
feathers. 
The forests of New Guinea, and the islands'of Ceram, Banda, and Waigiou, are the localities of the species of this 
genus. Their habits and manners have not been recorded by naturalists. 
1. M. aterrimum (Gmel.) Wagl. Edwards’s Birds, pi. 31 6. — 
Psittacus gigas Lath . ; P. griseus Bcchst. ; P. Goliath Kuhl, Le 
VaiU. Perr. t. 1 1, 12, 13., Gal. des Ois. t. 50. 
2. M. Alecto { Temm.) Faun. Japon. p. 17- 
Cacatua Briss.'f 
Bill strong the sides compressed ; the culmen flattened, and curved to the tip, which is hooked and 
aerial margins much festooned ; the gonys of the lower mandible broad, slightly romided, 
keeled in the middle, and rather emarginated at the tip ; the nostrils placed m a na ^ r °w °ere, 
and rounded. Wings long, with the second, third, and fourth quills near y equa an . 
rather short and even. 2W very short, and covered with small scales. Toes long, the outer ones the 
longest, covered with small irregular scales; the claws long, strong, and curve 
„ „ , , Uanzini (T823), and Eurhynchus of Latreille 
* Geoffrey established this genus in 1809- Probosciger of Kuhl (1820), Solenoy os 
(1825) are coequal. , . ,, . . ■ _ 204 , y Cuvier used in its place KaUtoe between 1799 and 
t It was in 1760 that Brisson established this genus (Ormthofogie, <P* 
1800, and in 181 6 Vieillot proposed Plyctolophus for the same series ot Dims. 
