The cheeks are bare, and of an intense blood-red colour.

Instead of the harsh scream of the white cockatoos, its voice is a somewhat plaintive whistle.

The tongue is a curious organ, being a slender fleshy cylinder of a deep red colour, terminated by a horny black plate, furrowed across and somewhat prehensile.

The whole tongue has a considerable extensile power.

I will here relate something of the habits of this bird, with which I have since become acquainted.