Order PSITTACIFORMES Family KAKATOEIDM 
No. 341. 
DUCORPSIUS SANGUINEUS. 
BLOODSTAINED COCKATOO. 
(Plate 289.) 
Cacatua sanguine a Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 138, 1843 ; North coast 
Australia — Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Cacatua sanguinea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 138, 1843; id., Birds Austr., 
pi. 10 (Vol. V., pi. 3) 1843 ; Sturt, Narr. Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App. p. 36, 
1849 (W. N.S.W.); Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 6, 1865; Diggles, Om. 
Austr. Vol. II., pi. 72, 1866 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 58, 1876 
(N.T.); Castelnau & Ramsay, id., p. 383, 1877 (N.T.); Masters, id., II., p. 274, 1878 
(N.T.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, 
p. 4, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 128, 1891 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 62, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 614, 
1901 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 47, 1908 ; North Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 84, 1911 ; Witmer Stone, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. I., 
p. 148, 1913; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XHI., p. 157, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Plyctolophus sanguineus Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. Paris, Vol. XXX., p. 139, 
1850 ; Finsch, Die Papageien., Vol. I., p. 307, 1867 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soo. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878. 
Plictolophus rhodolorus Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. I., p. 307, 1867 : new name for 
C. sanguinea Gould. 
Cacatua gymnopis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1871, p. 493; based on cage bird 
from unknown locality and type lost : I designate Port Essington, Northern 
Territory ; Sharpe, Birds New Guinea (Gould), Vol. V., pi. 46, 1885 ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888 ; id., Cat. Austr. Psittaci, p. 6, 1891 ; North, 
Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. IX., p. 37, 1894 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 62, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs, Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 613, 1901 ; 
tb.. Emu, Vol. I., p. 25, 1901 (N.W.A.) ; Lyons, id., p. 136, 1901 (Centr. A.); 
Hall, id., II., p. 62, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Le Souef, id., p. 152, 1903 (N.T.) ; Carter, 
id., III., p. 171, 1904 (N.W.A.) ; Kilgour, id., IV., p. 38, pi. v., 1904 (N.W.A.) ; 
Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 211, 1905 (N.T.) ; Hall, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 25, 
1907 (N.W.A.); Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 47, 1908; Whitlock, Emu, 
Vol. VIII., p. 191, 1909 (W.A.) ; Mathews, id., IX., p. 57 (N.W.A.) ; Whitlock, 
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