LONGBILLED COCKATOO. 
Psittacus piscinator (error pro pastinator ) Thienemann, Fortplanz d. ges. Vogel, p. 79, 1846. 
Cacatua tenuirostris Schlegel, De Dierentium, p. 82, 1864. 
Plictolophus nasica Finsch, Die Papageien, Vol. I., p. 316, 1867. 
Plictolophus pastinator Finsch, ib., p. 318. 
Licmetis tenuirostris tenuirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 266, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 127, 1913. 
Licmetis tenuirostris pastinator Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 266, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 127, 1913. 
Licmetis tenuirostris derby i Mathews, Austral Av. Bee., Vol. III., p. 57, 1916, Derby, 
N.W.A. 
Distribution. North-west Australia ; South-west Australia ; South Australia ; Victoria ; 
New South Wales. 
Adult Male. General colour above and below white, tinged with sulphur yellow, which 
is most pronounced on the quill-lining and more especially on the lower aspect 
of the tail ; the bases of the feathers on the entire head, sides of face, throat, neck 
all round and breast, salmon pink ; base of forehead and a large patch in front of 
the eye red. The feathers velvety in texture. Bill whitish-horn ; eyes dark 
hazel, feet mealy. Total length 455 mm. ; culmen 51, wing 287, tail 135, tarsus 22. 
Figured. Collected on the Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales, in June, 1892. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature. Take on the adult plumage from the nest. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Two to four. White. 37 to 40 mm. by 28 to 29. 
Breeding-season. August to November. 
This species was one of the discoveries made by Kuhl when he compiled the 
first Monograph of Parrots. Simultaneously it received a name by Temminck 
who gave as the locality of his species Port Phillip, Victoria. It was perhaps 
not killed there but brought to that locality. I had written this when I re- 
ferred to Robert Brown’s MSS. still preserved in the British Museum “when 
I found that it was procured at “ Bay XVI., Apl. 27, 1802,” a locality where 
it does not now occur as far as my records go. Bay XVI. is Port Phillip and 
on the MSS. is written “ nasutus Temm ” either by Temminck himself, or 
by Robert Brown at the time. Temminck later altered his name on account 
of Latham’s use of his first choice. 
I selected New South Wales as the type locality of Kuhl’s species, as he 
mentioned as the places where he saw specimens, the Paris Museum and 
Brooke’s in London but did not refer to the one Temminck described. 
When Wagler prepared his Monograph he proposed a new generic name 
for this species on account of the lengthened bill, and this genus has been 
recognised as valid ever since. I have commented upon this already, and 
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