WHITE COCKATOO. 
Cacatua chrysolophus Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., p. 182, 1830 : New name for P. galeritus 
Latham. 
Plyctolophus licmetorhynchus Bonaparte Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. (Paris), Yol. XXX., 
p. 139, 1850 ; Tasmania. 
Plictolophus galeritus Finsch Die Papag., Yol. I., p. 286, 1867 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878 ; Legge, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 
1886, p. 237, 1887 (Tas.). 
Plissolopkus galeritus Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 1881, p. 30. 
Cacatoes galeriia galerita Mathews, Nov. Zool., Yol. XVIII., p. 264, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 125, 1913. 
Cacatoes galerita licmetorhyncha Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 264, 1912 ; id.. 
List Birds Austr., p. 125, 1913. 
Cacatoes galerita fitzroyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 264, 1912 ; Fitzroy 
River, North-West Austr. ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 125, 1913. 
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Cacatoes galerita queenslandica Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 264, 1912 ; Cook- 
town, North Queensland ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 15, 1913. 
Cacatoes galerita rosince Mathews, Austral Av. Record, Vol. I., p. 36, Apl., 1912 ; Kangaroo 
I., South Austr. ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 125, 1913. 
Cacatoes galerita melvillensis Mathews, Austral. Av. Record, Vol. I., p. 36, 1912 ; Melville 
Island ; id., List Birds Austral., p. 125, 1913 ; Zietz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., 
p. 14, 1914, Melville Island. 
Cacatoes rosince S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 264, 1913 (Kangaroo Island). 
Cacatua queenslandica Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 156, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Distribution. Australia (except the Central and South-west) ; Tasmania ; extra limital. 
Adult male. General colour above and below white ; inner webs of the primary and 
secondary quills and tail-feathers sulphur-yellow, as are also the elongated feathers 
of the nuchal crest ; lower aspect of the tail and quill lining also sulphur yellow. 
Iris brown ; feet and tarsus mealy -black ; bill black. Total length, 510 mm. ; 
culmen 39, wing 345, tail 195, tarsus 27. Figured. Collected on Melville Island 
on the 22nd June, 1912. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Culmen 37 mm., wing 337. Melville Island, 
24th May, 1912. 
Immature. Take on the adult plumage from the nest. 
Nest. A hole in a tree, often very high up. 
Eggs. Clutch, two ; white. 47-52 mm. by 30-35 (Dawson River). 
Breeding-season. August to November. 
When this bird was first seen in Australia, it was regarded as identical with 
the White Cockatoo of the Moluccas, which was already known in Europe. 
Thus in White’s Journal Voy. New South Wales, published in 1790, a 
plate of the Crested Cockatoo, dated December 29th, 1789, is given, while in 
the text, p. 237, the Latin equivalent Psittacus cristatus Lin. is added with 
the note : “I cannot regard this bird in any other view than as a variety of 
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