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on the 1st April, 1S92, measures :-Len;;th 177 x 1-25 inches. A third e-- taken on the 7th 

 May, iSy2, nieastires :-Length rS x 1-25 inches. Three others measure respectively :- 

 Length (A) r.Sj x 1-33 inches; (H) i-h(, x 1-27 inches; (C) 174 x 1-25 inches. 



March to the beginning of August constitutes the usual breeding season in Eastern Australia, 

 but eggs are more freijuently found in April, May and June. 



Calyptorhynchus baudini. 



BAUDIN\S BLACK CorKATOO. 

 r„/y/,forhi/„c/u>s baudini, Vig., in hears III. Parr., pi. tl ( 1 S3l') ; .Salvad., Cat. t!ds. Brit. Mus., 

 \^ol. XX., p. 100 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. Bds , Vol. [I., p. 10 (l!»0o); 8alvad Ibis 1906* 

 p. 125. 



Cal,,i,l„rhy„clais baudini, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. V., pi. ] .3 (IMS) ; ;,/., Handbk. Bds. Austr., 

 Vol. JI., p. 2.') (ISO.")). 



Adult MALK.—G>-neral colour htarki,<h-br,uru, u-ith u^hit,,.br,Hra uutrgins I., ll,.. fVather, at, the 

 tipg, iMirrow abovr., broader brlow : tore,, fea/h^rs M,.>r //„ ^_,/, , ch,'.'ks and forehead a.l„,n.l black, Ike 

 latter ,rilh „ ,,reeu\sh ;//m.svv .■ ear-corerls dull white .■ tail-feathers blaeki^h-brou-n, all bat the central 

 pair crossed in the middle, with a broad white baud, except a nnrrou- uianjiu on the „uler web .- the 

 external web of the outer feather oa either side bb,ckishbrou-u ,- shafts of the fea/hers black ; ''bill lead 

 colour .■ in some specimens the upper mandible is blackish-bnum : leys and feet dull nellowish-gre,,, 

 tinged with olire " (Gould). Total length in the jiesh .' .' inches, wing 1 'pS, tail 11, bill l-ur,^ /„rsus 11. 



Adi'LT FEM.\LE. — Similar in plumage 1,1 tlie male. 



Distribution — Western .Australia. 

 y(j>AUDIN'S Black Cockatoo is an inhabitant of the south-western portion of the continent, 

 J— > and may be distinguished from all other species of the genus Cahftoiliyiuhus by its 

 strikingly contrasted brownish-black and white plumage; it has no ally. Mr. Geor.ge Masters, 

 collecting on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum at King George's Sound, Western 

 Australia, in 1.S67 and i.Shy, obtained a fine series of skins of both sexes. 



From Broome Hill, Western Australia, Mr. Tom Carter writes me : -" Calyptoyhyiichns 

 baudini resides in the Red Gum country, which lies to the west of Broome Hill, but flocks of 

 considerable size occasionally visit us here at various seasons, but do not remain long. They 

 are common at Albany and Denmark, and I have seen them as far north as the Murchison 

 River. A friend of mine, Mr. Bruce W. Leake, pointed out to me a tree from which had been 

 taken two eggs of C. bamUiii. The tree almost overhung a high road leading to Kellerberrin 

 Station, upon which there was a considerable amount of traffic, and the nesting-place was in a 

 hollow spout near the main trunk. On the 7th August, 1908, a neighbour informed me that a 

 pair were nesting in a hole in a Gum-tree thirty feet from the ground, about forty miles from 

 Broome Hill ; in the same locality on the 22nd September following a pair were nestino- in a 

 hole in a Gum tree, only twelve feet from the ground, and on the lyth October, iqo8, fledged 

 young were caught." 



Mr. G. A. Heartland sends me the following note :—" Although CalyptcrhvncliHs handini is 

 generally confined to South-western Australia, I saw several pairs near Mullawa, about si.xty 

 miles from Geraldton. They were generally out of range, but 1 managed to shoot one, which 

 proved to be a female. Near Quindalup they are fairly common, and breed in the neighborhood. 

 Their habits are similar to those of Calyptorhyncliiis funereus. Their eggs are usually smooth and 

 the shell fine in texture." 



Mr. Bruce W. Leake writes me from Cardona, Woolundra, Western .Vustralia : "The 



nests of Calyptorltynchits baudini 1 have found have been between thirty and forty-h\e feet from 



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