BLOODSTAINED COCKATOO. 
id., p. 192, 1910 (W.A.) ; Macgillivray, id., X., pp. 17, 19, 22, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; 
Mathews, id., p. 109, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; Hill, id., p. 269, 1911 (N.W.A.). 
Plictolophus gymnopis Giebel, Thes. Ornith., Vol. III., p. 229, 1877. 
Plissolophus sanguineus Reichenow, Joum. fur Om., 1881, p. 25. 
Plissolophus gymnopis Reichenow, ib. 
Cacatoes sanguinea sanguinea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 265, 1912. 
Cacatoes sanguinea gymnopis Mathews, ib. 
Cacatoes sanguinea distincta Mathews, ib., Alligator River, 60 miles inland, Northern 
Territory. 
Cacatoes sanguinea subdistincta Mathews, ib., Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 
Cacatoes sanguinea apsleyi Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 36, 1912 : Melville 
Island ; Zietz, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., p. 14, 1914 (Melville Island). 
Cacatoes sanguinea ashbyi Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 36, 1912 ; Yanco, New 
South Wales. 
Ducorpsius sanguineus sanguineus Mathews, List Birds Austr. p. 126 1913. 
Ducorpsius sanguineus ashbyi Mathews, ib. 
Ducorpsius gymnopis Mathews, ib. 
Ducorpsius gymnopis gymnopis Mathews, ib. 
Ducorpsius gymnopis subdistinctus Mathews, ib. 
Ducorpsius gymnopis distinctus Mathews, ib. 
Ducorpsius gymnopis apsleyi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Australia (except coastal South-west and South Australia, Victoria, 
Tasmania, coastal New South Wales, coastal Queensland and Cape York Peninsula). 
Adult male. General colour above and below white ; the bases of the feathers on the 
head, hind-neck, sides of face, sides of neck, and throat pink, which colour is also 
seen superficially in front and below the eye ; inner webs of the primary and 
secondary quills and tail-feathers sulphur-yellow like the lower aspect of the tail 
and quill lining. Iris brown ; orbits leaden blue ; feet and tarsus bluish grey ; 
bill bluish white. Total length 430 mm. ; culmen 30, wing 279, tail 136, tarsus 23. 
Figured. Collected on Melville Island on the 19th June, 1912. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male but smaller. Wing 270. Melville Island, 9th 
October, 1911. 
Immature. General colour above and below creamy-white ; the inner webs of the 
primary and secondary quills and outer tail-feathers sulphur-yellow like the quill 
lining and lower aspect of the tail ; the feathers on the top of the head, including 
the crest, sides of the face, hind-neck, sides of neck, and throat have red bases 
like the feathers in front and below the eye. Figured. Collected at Yanco Glen, 
New South Wales, on the 6th July, 1906. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch, three. White, 37-41 mm. by 29-30. 
Breeding-season. August to October. 
Captain S. A. White notes : “ I), gymnopis is a common bird in some 
localities of the interior of South Australia. They move about the country 
in large flocks during most of the year, making for the Gum creeks at 
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