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Show 492 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON ANIMALS IN THE MENAGERIE. [May 16, identify as Cacatua sanguinea, Gould, from Northern Australia, agreeing as it does in nearly every respect with his figure and with Dr. Finsch's excellent description (/. s. c. p. 307). Fig. 3. Head of Cacatua sanguinea. The third of our smaller white Cockatoos has also the lores and front reddish, nearly as in C. sanguinea; but the usual naked space round the eye is largely extended into a bare open space below it, as shown in the accompanying figure (fig. 4), and .3 of a much deeper blue than in C. ducorpsi. In this respect the bird resembles Licmetis nasica more than any other Cacatua. The crest resembles in shape that of C. sanguinea above spoken of. The feathers on the head, neck, and partly on the belly are tinged with rosy red at their bases. W e purchased this bird of Mr. Jamrach on the 2nd of June, 1868. I determined it as C. goffi.nl of Finsch, and so entered it in the register* ; but after again going into the subject I am convinced that it cannot be that bird. Dr. Finsch gives as his diagnosis of G. goffini (Papag. p. 309), " loris rubris nullis," which cannot be reconciled with our bird; and does not mention the peculiarity of the large naked space below the eye, which could not have been passed over by so accurate an observer, especially when he had seen the bird alive, I am therefore, somewhat unwillingly, compelled to give a new * See P. Z. S. 1868, App. p. 645. |