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Sp.405. CALLOCEPHALON GALEATUM. 



Gang-gang Cockatoo. 



Psittacus galeatus, Lath. Ind. Orii., Supp. p. xxiii. 



fimhriatus, Grant. 



Red-crowned Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn.. Supp. vol. ii. p. 369, pi. 140. 

 Calyptorhynchus galeatus, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 274. 

 Corydon galeatus, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand., vol. i. pp. 504, 690. 

 Plydolophus galeatus, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 302. 

 Banksianus galeatus. Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 181. 

 Callocephalon australe. Less. Zool. Voy. of Thetis, pis. 47, 48. 



galeatum, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd edit., p. 68. 



Cacatua galeata, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xvii. p. 12. 

 Psittacus phcenicocephalus, Mus. de Paris. 



{Banksianus) galeatus, Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 181. 



Kakadoe ruhro-galeatus, Bourj. de St.-Hil. Perr., tabs. 75, 75a, 756. 

 Gang-gang Cockatoo, Colonists of New South Wales. 



Callocephalon galeatum, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. v. 

 pi. 14. 



The only information I can give respecting this fine species 

 is that it is a native of the forests bordering the south coast 

 of Australia, some of the larger islands in Bass's Straits, and 

 the northern parts of Tasmania, and that it frequents the 

 most lofty trees, and feeds on the seeds of the various Eucalypti. 

 A few instances have occurred of its being brought to England 

 alive, where it has borne captivity quite as well as the other 

 members of the great family to which it belongs. While 

 this Handbook was passing through the press, individuals 

 of this species graced the Menagerie of the Zoological 

 Society of London, and I trust this fact may induce some 

 of our Australian friends to send others, for no birds would 

 be more highly prized. This species being closely allied 

 to the Black Cockatoos {Calyptorliynchi) we may reasonably 

 infer that these latter birds would thrive equally well, were 



