The figures are about two-thirds of the natural size.
CALYPTORHYNCHUS BAUDINII: Vig.
J. Gould and H.C. Richter del et lith. Hullmandel & Walton Imp.
CALYPTORHYNCHUS BAUDINII, Vig.
Baudin’s Cockatoo.
Calyptorhynchus Baudinii, Vig. in Lear’s Ill. Psitt., pl. 6.
Oo-l̏aak of the Aborigines of the lowland, and
Ngol-y̏e-nuk of the Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia.
White-tailed Black Cockatoo of the Colonists.
This species, which is a native of Western Australia, is distinguished from all the other known members of the group by its smaller size and by the white markings of its tail-feathers. It belongs to that section of the Black Cockatoos in which a similarity of marking characterizes both sexes, such as Calyptorhynchus funereus and C. xanthonotus. Like the other members of the genus it frequents the large forests of Eucalypti and the belts of Banksiæ, upon the seeds of which it mainly subsists; occasionally it seeks its food on the ground, when insects, fallen seeds, &c. are equally partaken of; the larvæ of moths and other insects are also extracted by it from the trunks and limbs of such trees as are infested by them.
Its flight is heavy and apparently laboured: when on the wing it frequently utters a note very similar to its aboriginal name; at other times when perched on the trees it utters a harsh croaking sound, which is kept up all the time the bird is feeding.