PARROTS AND COCKATOOS OF THE FOREST-LANDS *39 
notes Also called Bare-eyed Cockatoo and Blood-stained Cockatoo. 
Usually in pairs or flocks, frequenting open country interspersed with 
belts of scrub, or timber bordering watercourses. It spends much of its 
time on the ground feeding on the seeds of grasses and other plants, 
also on bulbs and roots, it generally feeds just after sunrise and 
before dusk, spending the rest of the day in a tree, where it occupies 
itself by stripping off leaves, twigs, and bark, very often completely 
destroying many trees. 
nest. In a hollow limb or hole in a tree. 
ecgs. Usually three, white. Breeding-season: August to October. 
10. Corel la Kahaloe tenuirostris Kuhl 
ten-u-i-ros'-tris— L., tenuis, slender; L., rostrum, bill. 
distribution. Southern, Western, and north-western Australia. 
notes. Also called Long-billed Cockatoo. Usually in pairs or flocks, 
frequenting plains or timber bordering watercourses. It spends much 
of its time on the ground, feeding on the seeds of grasses and other 
plants and on bulbous roots. 
nest. In a hollow limb or hole in a tree. 
eggs. Two to four, white. Breeding-season: August to November. 
11. White Cockatoo Kahaloe galerila Latham 
gal-er-i'-ta-L., galeritus, crested. 
distribution. Australia (except Western Australia, south of the 
Fitzroy River), King Island, and Tasmania; also occurs in the Molucca 
Islands and New Guinea. 
notes Also called Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. Usually in pairs or 
flocks frequenting heavily timbered mountain ranges, open forest¬ 
lands’ and timber bordering watercourses. The normal food of this 
Cockatoo consists of seeds and bulbous roots. While the flock is feeding 
individual birds perch on the topmost branches of a high tree to act 
as sentinels, giving a shrill screech to warn the flock when an enemy 
approaches. This species causes considerable damage to crops, chiefly 
wheat and maize, either when newly planted or when ripening. 
nest. In a hollow limb or hole in a tree; also in holes in cliffs. 
eggs. Usually two, white. Breeding-season: August to November. 
12. Pink Cockatoo Kahatoe leadbeateri Vigors 
leadbeateri —Benjamin Leadbeater, a London naturalist. 
distribution. North-western, Western and South Australia, and 
the interior of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. 
notes. Also called Major Mitchell, Wee Juggler, and Leadbeater’s 
Cockatoo Usually in pairs or small flocks, frequenting thickly tim¬ 
bered scrub (mallee chiefly) and arid lands. It spends much of us time 
on the ground feeding on bulbous roots and the seeds of plants and 
