108 CACATTTIM3. 



Adult. Brownish black, glossed ■with green, particularly on the 

 head ; feathers of the body narrowly margined with brown, more 

 or less olive on the underparts : ear-coverts dull wax-yellow ; all 

 but the two central tail-feathers crossed by a very broad band, pale 

 yellow, more or less freckled with irregular zigzag markings of 

 brownish black ; the external web of the outer tail-feathers and the 

 margin of the external web of the other banded feathers brownish 

 black : " bill black ; eyes blackish brown ; feet nearly blackish 

 brown " (Gould). Total length 24 inches, wing 18, tail 14, bill 2-1, 

 tarsus 1*1. 



Young. The ear-coverts are of a brighter yellow, the edges of 

 the feathers of the underparts are broader and of a brighter yellowish 

 olive ; the band on the tail is more freckled with brown, and the 

 bill is wbitish, with the tip dark. 



Hah. South-eastern Australia and Tasmania. 



a. Ad. sk. Linnean Society [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 b-f. Ad. etimm. sk. Australia (J. T. Cocker eU). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 g. Inim. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 



3. Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus. 



Calyptorkvnchus xanthonotus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 151 ; id. 

 Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg. 1839, p. 395; G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. 



p. 426, n. 8 (1846) ; Gould, B. Austr. v. pi. 12 (1847) ; Relink 

 Vog. N. Holl. n. 463 (1850) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 



p. 156, n. 271 ; id. Naumamiia, l856, Consp. Psitt. n. 284; G. R. 



Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 99 (1859) ; Krefft, Ibis, 1863, p. 117 



(Sydney) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 22 (1865) ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 171, n. 8411 (1870); Diggl. Syn. B. Austr. ii. 



p. 75 bis (1877) ; Rehnw. Journ.f. Orn. 1881, p. 33 (Consp. Psitt. 



p. 33) ; id. Vogelbifd. Xach.tr. n. 4 (1883) ; Leqge, Pr. R. Soc. 



Tasm. 1886, p. 237 ; Ramsay, Tab. List, n. 478 (note) (1888) ; 



Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 72 (1889) ; North, Deser. Cat. Nests fy Eggs 



Austr. Birds, p. 253 (1889). 

 Calvptorhynchus xanthotus, Schleg. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 380; id. 



Dierent. p. 84 (1864) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 155 (1864) ; id. 



op. cit. Rente, p. 70 (1874). 

 Calvptorhynchus funereus, part., Finsch, Papag. i. p. 357 (1867); 



Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 551 (partim) (1872) ; Ramsay, Tab. List, 



p. 16, n. 478 (partim) (1888). 

 Calvptorhynchus funereus, var. xanthonotus, Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. ii. p. 193, n. 459 (1878). 



Adult. Exactly like C. funereus in colouring, but smaller in all 

 the dimensions. Total length from 23 to 22 inches, wing from 15 

 to 14 inches, tail from 11 to 10 inches. 



Hah. Tasmania and South Australia. 



Although I have kept this species separate from the preceding 

 one, I am not at all sure that I am justified in so doing, as there is 

 the most perfect gradation between the two forms. 



a, b. Ad. sk. River Murray, Oct. & Nov. Sir R. Grey [P.]. 



