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lira ban-lid iinth iliill ijillnir, r.nvji/ i»i the abdim/i'u, irli.ct' lln- burrinf/s arr a mi.rlure u/' i/el/oi.v and 

 red : under laU-mrrrfs black and barred similarli/ to l}ic abdntiiHn : under ming-cuc'rU black; broadh/ 

 inaryiufil at (he fi/is nii//i >/el/it>r. Total leiujtii :.','' iucJien, a-iiui IS, tail 1 '/. 



Distribntion — ( Hieensland, New South Wales, X'ictoria, South Australia, 



jSaX describing,' the genus CalYptorlivihlnii in the 'J'ransactions of the Linnean Society of 

 -L London,* Messrs. \'ii,'ors and Horsiield ([uoted the followinf; note :— " The native name of 

 these birds," says Mr. Caley, "is Gt'rini;oi'a. I have met with them in various parts of the country. 

 In the north rocks, a few miles to the northward of I'ar [r] amatta, I have frequently seen them, 

 but never many together. The natives tell me it breeds in the winter in ' Mun'ning-trees,' or 

 Blood -trees oi the colonists (a species of Euccdyptus). It makes no other nest than that of the 

 vegetable mould formed by the decay of the tree." 



Parramatta is fifteen miles from Sydney, but like Scythrops novee-hollividia\ Dvomaiiis novie- 

 hollaudiiT, and many other species once common in the early days of settlement, the place knows 

 them no more. 



The typical Cidyplorliviiehns baidcsi is an inhabitant of the coastal brushes and contiguous 

 mountain ranges of Southern Queensland and ICastern Xew South Wales, where the type was 

 obtained. It is the largest of all the I-ied-tailed Black Cockatoos, although I regard Calyptor- 

 hyihhiis stelldtus, W'agler, and C. macrorhyiichns, Gould, only as geographical variations of C. 

 Iiankii. and not as distinct species, all gradually merging into one another. C. bankn is also 

 an inhabitant of the western portions of Southern (jueensland and New South Wales, its range 

 extending into the adjoining portions of South Australia, but I have never heard of its occurrence 

 in the south-eastern portions of the latter State. Specimens from the north-eastern parts of 

 Queensland, about Cairns and the Bellender Ker Range, are smaller than examples obtained in 

 Southern Queensland and New South Wales, and approach the western form, C. sfellntiis, but 

 from which the adult females may be chiefly distinguished by the larger amount of red on the 

 tail feathers, although this is by no means a constant character, as a specimen in the Australian 

 Museum Collection from Western Australia has as much red on the tail feathers as eastern 

 e.\amples. The measurement of an adult female from Cairns is 13-7 inches. 



I have met with the present species in \ictoria, the southern limit of its range, but have no 

 specimen for comparison from that State. On the Clarence River, New South Wales, where 

 Mr. G. Savidge has found it breeding, I observed it in November, in small flocks of usually 

 three in number, frequenting the larger Eucalyptus growing on the river banks. These birds 

 were apparently by their cries an adult pair with a young one. One of these flocks, that used 

 to haunt the Gum trees near a cave-shelter overlooking the river, about a mile below Mr. 

 Savidge's house, was remarkably tame, and on several occasions I could easily have shot all of 

 them if I had so desired. 



Some adult males have the red bar on the tail feathers bordered above with a narrow line 

 of yellow, which colour in some specimens is continued in a triangular-shaped patch along the 

 inner web. One adult male in the .Australian Museum Collection has a large concealed oval 

 red spot on one of the larger upper tail-coverts; another has a small red spot on both webs of 

 one of the larger under tail-co\erts. 



Mr. Robert Grant has given me the following notes : — " While collecting around Boar 

 Pocket, on the Bellenden Ker Range, North-eastern Queensland, in (October, 1888, on behalf of 

 the Trustees of the Australian Museum, Calvpforhyuikiis Ininksi was very common. Its favourite 

 feeding trees were the Casuarinas and Eucalypts, more especially the ISloodwoods, and another 

 large tree with small glossy dark green leaves and clusters of small bell-like blossoms. In one 



* Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. XV.. p. 269-71. 

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