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extraordinarily developed bills and their lengthened lanceolate 

 crest-feathers. Two species are all that are known, one of 

 which is Australian. 



Sp. 404. MICROGLOSSUM ATERRIMUM. 

 Great Palm Cockatoo. 



Gi'eat Black Cockatoo, Edw. Glean., pi. 316. 



Psittacus aterrimus, Gmel. Edit. Linn, Syst, Nat., vol. i. p. 330. 



gigas, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 107. 



griseus, Bechst. 



goliatli, Kubl, Consp. Psitt. in Nov. Acta, vol. x. p. 92. 



Cacatua ate/rhna, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat., torn. xvii. p. 13. 

 Microglossus aterrimus, Wagl. Mon, Psitt. in Abhand., vol. i. p. 682. 



et griseus. Swains. Classif. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 302. 



Microghssum aterrimum, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 424. 



ater, Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 184, Atlas, pi. 19. fig. 1 et A. 



Psittacus {Prohosciger) aterrimus, Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nov. Acta, 

 pp. 12, 91. 



■ ( ) goliath, Kuhl, lb., pp. 9, 94. 



Solenoglossus zeylanicus, Ranz. Elem. d'Orn., torn. ii. p. 21. 



Psittacus {Cacatua) goliath, Miill. et Schleg. 



Payiintoo, Goodang Tribe of the Aborigines at Cape York. 



Microglossus aterrimus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supple- 

 ment, pi. 



As might have been expected, the fauna of the Cape York 

 district is found to comprise many species common to the 

 islands immediately to the northward of that part of the 

 country ; among which the present noble bird must now be 

 enumerated. Although not new to science, no one of the 

 accessions obtained during the expedition of H.M.S. Rattle- 

 snake is of greater interest than the Microghssum aterrimum, 

 adding, as it does, another to the rich series of the Psitfacida 

 previously described as pertaining to the ornithology of Aus- 

 tralia. 



I have much pleasure in communicating the following 

 interesting notes on this species by Mr. MacgUlivray : — 



