CACATUA. 
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Hab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and 
South-West Australia, South Coast New Guinea, (j Ramsay.) 
CACATUA LEADBEATERI, Vigors. 
Leadbeater’s Cockatoo. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 392, p. 5. 
Mr. K. H. Bennett found this handsome bird breeding plentifully 
in the interior of New South Wales, between the Lachlan and the 
Darling Rivers. Like all other members of this genus it breeds 
in the hollow limbs of trees, usually of a lofty Eucalyptus. The 
eggs are three in number for a sitting, oval in shape, white ; a set 
taken on September the 5th 1884, measures as follows : — length 
(A) 1-38 x 11 inch; (B) 1-39 x 1 inch ; (C) 1-41 x M2 inch. 
This species breeds during the months of August, September, 
and October. 
Hnb. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
CACATUA ROSEICAPILLA, VieiUot. 
Rose-breasted Cockatoo. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp, 394, p. 8. 
“ Like all the members of this section the Rose Cockatoo nests 
in the hollow branches of large trees, laying its eggs on the debris 
of decaying wood usually found in such places, they are three in 
number, white, rather oblong in form and slightly granular; 
length (A) 1-4 x 1-05 inch; (B) l-4x 1-04 inch.” (Ramsay, P.L.S., 
N.S. W., Vol. vii,, p. 53.) 
Rah. Derby, North-West Australia, Port Darwin and Port 
Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
