CACATUIN./E. 
Tarsi short, robust, and covered with rounded scales. Toes unequal, and covered with quadrate scales, 
except at the end of each toe where the scales are transverse ; the claws long, strong, and slightly curved. 
This remarkable bird was found in one of the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Its manners and habits are 
unknown ; but, from the appearance of the bill, I am induced to suppose that it feeds on fruits that are enveloped in 
a strong hard coating. 
S. habroptilus G. R. Gray. 
Dasyptilus Wagl .* 
Bill longer than high, thick, rather compressed on the sides ; the culmen curved to the tip, which is 
acute ; the gonys of the lower mandible rounded and keeled, with the tip deeply emarginated ; the 
nostrils rounded, and placed in the cere. Wings long, rounded, and the fourth quill the longest. Tail 
moderate, broad, and rounded. Tarsi short, strong, and covered with small scales. Toes moderate, and 
covered with small irregular scales. 
This bird is supposed to be a native of New Guinea. 
D. Pecquetii (Less.) Wagl. Bull. Univ. 1831. 241., Less. 111. Zool. t. 1. 
* Established in 1830 (Hand!. Akad. Munchen, 1832, p. 502.) by Wagler. M. Lesson’s genus Psittrichas (1831) is coequal with the 
one employed. 
September, 1845. 
