18 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



lateral tail-feathers, except the external web of the outer one, 

 crossed by a broad band of fine scarlet ; irides dark blackish 

 brown ; bill bluish lead-colour, feet brownish black, with a 

 leaden tinge. 



The female has the upper surface similar to, but not so 

 rich as, that of the male, and has an irregularly shaped spot 

 of yellowish white near the tip of each of the feathers of the 

 head, crest, cheeks, and wing-coverts ; the under surface 

 brownish black, crossed by numerous narrow irregular bars 

 of dull sulphur-yellow; the under tail-coverts crossed by several 

 irregular bars of mingled yellow and dull scarlet ; the lateral 

 tail-feathers dull scarlet, crossed by numerous irregular bars 

 of black, which are narrow at the base of the feathers and 

 gradually increase in breadth towards the tip. 



Total length 22 inches ; bill in height 2f ; wing 14 ; tail 

 lOJ; tarsi f. 



Sp. 400. CALYPTORHYNCHUS LEACHII. 



Leach's Cockatoo. 



Psittacus leachii, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nova Acta, vol. x. p. 91, pi. 3. 



temminckii, Kuhl, lb., vol. x. p. 89. 



solandrii, Temm. lb., vol. xiii. p. 113. 



Cacatua viridis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat., torn. xvii. p. 13. 

 Calyptorhynchus cookii, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 272. 



solandri, Vig. and Horsf. lb., vol. xv. p. 274. 



leachii, Wagl. Mon. Psit. in Abhand., vol. i. p. 683. 



temminckii, Wagl, lb., vol. i. p. 684. 



stellatus, Selb. in Nat. Lib. Orn., vol. vi. Parrots, p. 134, pi. 15. 



Banksianus australis. Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 180, Atlas, pi. 18: fig. 2, 



female. 

 Pli/ctolophus solandri et cookii. Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 302. 

 Carat, Aborigines of New South Wales. 



Calyptorhynchus leachii, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, voL v. 

 pLlO. 



The Calyptorhynclms leachii is the least species of the 



