64 (.'ACATllIi.K. 



as in (lOuld's time, and on the ist [anuary, igog, I watc hed for some time a small flock busy on 

 the Banksia cones in the neii;hbourhood of (ilenonhy. The egt^s were for many years among the 

 desiderata of my cabinet, until in iSiyh Mr. Leslie lUirbury succeeded in obtainiiif; a set for me 

 in the Oaklands District in the Midlands. A shepherd on the estate chanced to see the bird tly 

 from a hole in a tall Eucalyptus, and informed Mr. Burbury, who, after putting the bird from the 

 nest several times, took the two eggs on the 2jrd |anuary, iSyfi. He describes them as being 

 found in a slight hollow on the decayed wood about thirty inches below the hole in the main 

 trunk of the tree, and between forty and fifty teet from the ground. .\ few dried gum lea\es 

 were present, but these might have been accidental. The eggs were slightly incubated. The 

 locality strange to say was not by any means an unfrequented one. Mr. Burbury continued to 

 keep a look out, and on the 2nd January of the following year (I'^^M/) secured another pair of 

 eggs for me, the data in connection with them being very similar to the first. From the dates 

 given, and from the fact that 1 can find no record of the bird nesting befiae the end of December, 

 it would appear that nesting operations are verv late in ( omparison with those of 'I'asmanian 

 birds in general." 



Two eggs in Mr. Malcolm Harrison's collection, taken on the j^rd |anuarv. iS^d, at York 

 Plains, near ( )aklands, from a nesting-place in a (iimi tree forty feet from the ground by Mr. 

 Leslie Burbury. are rounded oval in form, dull white, the shell slightly pitted, and one specimen 

 having a faint lustre. They measure: — Length (A) r.S2 x 1-47 inches; (l!)i-73 x i'44 inches. 

 There are also two eggs in the Tasmanian Museum, Hobart, taken on the 25th January, 1^117. 

 The following information is extracted from a note by the late Mr. Alexander INIorton, the 

 Curator: — " Taken on the top of the Western Tier, near Tunbridge. The nesting-place was 

 four feet down the barrel of a Stringy-bark, and about fifty feet from the ground. The bird was 

 seen to leave the nest, and both were seen about it. The eggs were received unblown on the 

 13th .April following, and in one was found a fairly developed young bird; the other egg was 

 addled." 



Calyptorhynchus banksi. 



BANK'S BLACK CUCKATuO. 



J'siltiirufi l'aiiJ,>:ii, Lath., Ind. < )ni., p. lU7 (1700). 



('alyplorhynclinn hanksii, Gould, fids. Austr., fol. Vol. V., pi. 7(1S-1S) ; ''/., Handbk. lids. Austr., 

 Vol. 11., p. L'5 (180.5). 



<_'idyi,lurlnjiH-l,ii:i hanks;, Salvad., Cat. Bds Hrit. Mus., Vol. XX., p ln;i (IS'.U): North, Vict. Nat, 

 Vol. Xni., pp. i:iG-l:57 (189r)) ; Sharpe, Hand 1. Bds., Vol. H., p. lOfl'.tOO) ; Salvad., Ibis, 

 I'.lOG, p. 126. 



Adult UALE^Ahove and brlou- hhick iritli a gri-mish (/loss, wliich is mow disfi.iicl on the upper 

 parts: all but ihi' cenfnil pair of tail-fedthers and the outer irchs nj lli. onlrrmosl feather on either 

 side cmsseil iritli II tiawl of rich rfnuillioii : hill dark i/reifish-hlark : leijs mid feet menli/ yrei/ish- 

 blaek : iris hhvk. Total huylh in tin /hsh .'r, iiirh".s, iriny IT. tail !■!■',, hill ,.', tarsus O-U. 



Alirr^T FK.MALK — Ahiii-r hlnrk, iri/h a sliyht yreenish gloss, t/ie feiithrrs of the lieail spnttrd irith 

 ip'lloir, anil Ihosi of thr iriny con ris slightly tippi'd irith yelloir : centrid jiair of tnil-fealhers hhick, 

 the ni.ct jiair black, crnssid in the centre irith dii.ll red irrei/ular irnry ■.ii/-:ay bars, the ri inamder 

 black, crossed in the centre iritli a red hand, irhieh is nyniu mottled or irreyulnrly burred 11 ilh h/nck, 

 the basal portion of the inner n-eb yeVon; as is nlsn a narroir edijinij on. the miter ireb of tin jiennltiinate 

 feathers; iinihr surface of the tail of a ninrh duller i/ellmr and red than it is on the iipjier jinrts ; 

 fore-neck blnek, passing into broiruish-blark on the remainder of the under surf ice, irliere the feathers 



