CACATUA GYMNOPIS, Sclaier. 
Naked-eyed Cockatoo. 
Cacatua smguinea, Sturt, Travels in Austr. App. p. 36 (1849, nec Gould). 
Cacatua gymnopis, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 490, 1875, p. 61. — Id. List of Animals in Zool. Gard. 
p. 313 (1883). 
In the ‘Birds of Australia’ will be found a figure of tiie Blood-stained Cockatoo {Cacatua mugulnea') of 
Northern Australia, which was originally described in 1842 from specimens obtained at Port Essiiigton. 
The present bird resembles C. sangmnea in having the lores more or less stained with rosy red. But it is 
at once distinguishable from that species by the broad plaque of blue naked skin below the eye, which is also 
continued in a ring round the eye. In Cacatua mnguinea the naked skin round the eye is white ; besides, 
that bird is considerably smaller in dimensions and has much shorter claws. 
As in the case of the Blue-eyed Cockatoo, this species was first discriminated by Mr. Sclater, the Secretary 
of the Zoological Society of London, from a specimen living in the Society’s collection in 1871. The bird 
in question had been purchased from the well-known dealer, Mr, Jamrach, in 1868, and its locality was not 
known. But Mr. Sclater ascertained that two White Cockatoos in the gallery of the British Museum, 
obtained by Sturt at Depot Creek during his expedition into Southern Australia, belonged to the same 
species. The correct patria of this Cockatoo is therefore no doubt Southern Australia. 
Our figure of this bird is taken from a skin of an individual that was also formerly living in the 
Zoological Society’s collection, having been purchased in February 1872, and having died in January 1883. 
In the Appendix to the narrative of Captain Sturt’s expedition into Southern Australia is given the 
follow'ing account of this species : — 
“ This bird succeeded Cacatua galerita, and was first seen in an immense flock on the grassy plains at 
the bottom of the Depot Creek, feeding on the grassy plains or under the trees, where it greedily sought 
the seeds of the kidney bean. These Cockatoos were very wild, and when they rose from the ground or the 
trees, made a most discordant noise, their note being, if anything, still more disagreeable than that of either 
of the others. They left us in April, and must have migrated to the N.E., as they did not pass us to the 
N.W., nor w'ere they anywhere seen so numerously as at this place.” 
[R. B. S.] 
