3. CALLOCEPHALON. 113 



Rets., Fog. p. 100 1 1860) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1675, p. 601 ; Diggl. 



Vrn. Austr. ii. pi. 74 (vouug) (l87 - 7). 

 Cacatua lea< hii, SchUg. Jinan./. Om. 1861, p. 379. 

 Calyptorhynchus Bolanderi, Qieb. Thee. Om. i. p. 552 (1872). 



Adult male. Glossy greenish black ; head and neck brown ; also 

 the breast and the abdomen are washed with brown ; a broad band 

 of deep vermilion across the middle of all but the two centre tail- 

 feathers ; the external web of the outer tail-feathers and the margin 

 of the external web of the other banded feathers black : iris very 

 dark brown ; orbits nearly black ; bill dark horu-colour ; feet nearly 

 black. Total length 19-5 inches, wing 14, tail 10, bill 1'9, tarsus 



Female (?) or immature bird. Differs from the adult in having 

 the scarlet band on the tail more or less tinged with yellow and 

 crossed by narrow black bands ; on the head and chin there are 

 frequently yellow feathers irregularly disposed. 



Tonng. Like the immature bird; the head, the uuderparts, the 

 upper and under wing-coverts spotted with yeilow ; sometimes the 

 under tail-coverts are banded with yellow. 



Hah. Eastern Australia, from Cape York to Victoria. 



3. CALL0CEPHAL0N. 



Type. 

 Corydon, If agl. (nee Less.) Man. P.<itt. p, ."04 



0832) c. galeatum. 



Callocephalon, Less, in Bougaim: T'ou. de la 



Thitis, p. 311 (1837) (nee Calocephalus, F. Cuv., 



l 8 .-6) P. galeatum. 



Callicephalus, Aqasx. Nomencl. Zoo/, lnd. Univ. p. 68 



(1848). 

 Callocephala, Rchnw. Journ. f. Om ]881, p. 31. 

 Calloceplmlu-i, Salvin, Cat. Strickl. toll. p. 454 



(1882). 



Itaiu/e. Confined to Australia. 



1 . Callocephalon galeatum. 



Red erownpd Parrot, Lath. S>/n., Suppl. ii. p. 869, pi. CXl. (1802) ; id 



Gen. Hist. ii. p. 218, pi. 28 1 1822J. 

 Psittacus galeatus, Lath. Suppl- I»d- Om. p. xxiii, n. 13 (1802); 



Shaw, Gen. Zoo], viii. p. .523 (1811); Knhl. Gonsp. Ps,tt, p. 88 



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