10 ERNEST WARREN. 



lengtli 20-18 inclies, wing 15-13-5, tail 8-5-7-5, bill 2-1-7, 

 tarsus 1 '15-1-1. 



''^Hab, — Australia and Tasmania." 



Count Salvadori further remarks : " I have not been able 

 to examine specimens from Tasmania, which, on account of 

 some little difference in the shape of the bill, have been 

 specifically separated as C. licmetorhyncha {Bp.)." 



The present specimen when standing on perch measured 

 17-5 inches (445 mm.) from the crown of the head to the tip 

 of the tail. 



Sulphur-yellow crest well-developed, and with recurved 

 extremity ; the longest feather measured 45 inches (1 14 mm.). 



Prominent projecting forehead. 



The ear-coverts were tinged with sulphui'-yellow. 



Exposed portion of eye, when eye-lids were open, was 

 somewhat oval in shape, set horizontally, and measured 

 31 sq. mm. Eye-lids, when wide open, exhibited at their 

 margin a circle of well-developed, symmetrical, squarish 

 granulations. Iris veiy dark brown. 



Naked skin round the eye oval in shape, set horizontally, 

 and measured 144 sq. mm. It was irregularly furrowed, and 

 both it and the eyelids were of a chalky white. 



The bases of many of the feathers of the head and throat 

 were sulphur-yellow in colour. 



Length of tail 8 inches (203 mm.) ; base of inner web of 

 tail-feathers resembled that of the quill-feathers in being pale 

 sulphur-yellow. 



Bill, black horn-colour, Avitli the appearance of being dusted 

 with white powder. The upper mandible from forehead to 

 tip of hook measured 1-68 inches (42 mm.) ; depth from fore- 

 head to lower inner angle, 1-05 inches (27 mm.). The lower 

 edge of the upper mandible, when bill was in a normal 

 position of rest, was only about 8° from the horizontal, 

 and was nearly parallel to a line passing through the centre 

 of the eye and the middle point of the junction of the fore- 

 head and bill. There is considerable variation in this matter 

 in different individuals, as it has been observed that in some 



