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PSITTACIDiE. 
New South Wales. The nest is a bulky structure of dried leaves 
and grasses rounded and covered over above, with an opening on 
both sides, from which the head of the female on one side, and her 
tail on the other protrudes while sitting. It is usually placed in a 
tussock of long coarse grass. Eggs three or four in number for a 
sitting, an average specimen in the Dobroyde Collection taken by 
Mr. John Macgillivray, near Grafton on the Clarence River, in 
October 1864, is rounded in form, and of a dull dirty-white, having 
a thin coating of lime on it, one side showing scratches as if done 
by the bird while sitting. Length (A) 1'35 x 1-13 inch. 
Sab Cape York, Rockingham Ray, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South 
Wales, and North-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Order SCAN SO RES. 
Family PSITTACIDiE. 
Genus CACATUA, Vieillot. 
CACATUA GALERITA, Latham. 
Great Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. 
Gould, Sandb/c. Bds. Amt., Yol. ii., sp. 391, p. 2. 
This bird is universally dispersed over the whole of Australia. 
It resorts to the hollow branches or boles of trees to nest and 
deposit its eggs, which are two in number, on the decaying wood 
usually found in such places, they are pure white, and vary in 
form from oval to pointed oval. Length (A) 1 '65 x 1’21 inch; 
(B) 1 -63 x 1 • 19 inch. A pair in the Dobroyde Collection measure : 
length (A) 1-62 x MS inch; (B) 1-61 x 1-2 inch. 
August and the three following months constitutes the breeding 
season of this species. 
