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PSITTACIDiE. 
Genus LICMETIS, Wagler. 
LIOMETIS N ASIC A, Temminck. 
(L. tenuirostris, Wagler.) 
Long-billed Cockatoo. 
Gould, Randbh. Bds. Amt., Vol. ii., sp. 395, p. 11. 
The Long-billed Cockatoo usually exei’cises great caro in placing 
its nest out of the way of human enemies, choosing one of the 
most inaccessible trees in the dead branch of which it deposits its 
eggs, which are white and three in number, oval, and rather 
pointed at the smaller end ; shell inclined to be rough, an average 
specimen measures:—length IT x IT inch. 
The breeding season commences in August and lasts during the 
two following months. 
Ilab. Gulf of Carpentaria, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 
and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus CALYPTOEIIYNCHUS, Vigors and Horsjicld. 
C ALYPTOIt 1IYNCJLU S NASO, Gould. 
Western Black Cockatoo. 
Gould, Randbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. ii., sp. 399, p. 17. 
“ This species breeds in the holes of trees, where it deposits its 
snow-white eggs on the soft dead wood. They are generally 
placed in trees so difficult of access that even the natives dislike 
to climb them. Those given to Gilbert by the son of the colonial 
chaplain were taken by a native from a hole in a very high white 
gum, in the last week of October ; they are white, ono inch and 
eight lines long by one inch and four lines broad.” (Gould, 
llandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. p. 17.) 
Hob. West Australia. 
