VI TRICHOGLOSSIDAE ^y^ 



The half-dozen crested members of Calyptorhynchus, which are 

 brown or black with a greenish gloss, and a whitish, red, or 

 yellow band across the lateral rectrices, have a more laboured 

 flight and a comparatively low whining cry ; they feed on seeds of 

 Banksia and Casuarina and on caterpillars. C'alloce]jJialo7i galeatum 

 is grey, with a scarlet head and crest. In these two Australian 

 genera the supposed females exhibit yellow markings. Ificro- 

 glossus aterrimtcs, the Great Black Cockatoo of North Australia 

 and Papuasia, is greyish-black with a long narrow crest, and 

 naked red and yellow cheeks. It is a retiring bird, found in pairs 

 among high trees in thick forests ; the flight is comparatively 

 weak, the note a plaintive whistle; the food consists of seeds of 

 Pandanus, Canarium, palm-shoots, and the like ; the egg is laid 

 on a bed of twigs in a hollow tree. Calopsittacus novae liollandiae, 

 the crested Australian Cockatoo-Parakeet, is dark grey, with yellow 

 forehead and cheeks, orange ear-coverts, and white wing-patch. 

 The female has yellow marks on the tail and under parts. By no 

 means shy, the flocks feed chiefly on the ground, while individuals 

 fly well and love perching on dead branches. 



Fam. IV. Trichoglossidae.- Sub-fam. 1. CydoigsiUacinae. 

 This includes Keopsittacus and Cyclopsittacus of Timor, Xorth-East 

 Australia and Papuasia, which are coloured red, green, blue, and 

 yellow ; the peculiarities of structure have already been mentioned. 



Sub-Fam. 2. Loriinae. Trichoglossus novae hollandiae, Swain- 

 sons Lory, is blue, with green head and central abdomen ; the 

 remaining under parts being red, the sides, nuchal collar and 

 inner webs of the lateral rectrices yellow. Flocks haunt the 

 Uucalyptus-iovests of Eastern Australia and Tasmania, uttering 

 incessant screams, flying swiftly and directly from tree to tree, 

 settling again with a dash, creeping and clinging around the 

 branches, and extracting honey from the flowers with their 

 brush-tipped tongues, besides eating seeds. From two to four 

 eggs are dejDOsited in holes in trees. The various species of 

 Trichoglossus range from Celebes and Timor to Australia and the 

 New Hebrides. Ftilosclera versicolor, of North and West Australia, 

 is green, with yellowish streaks on the body, bluish cheeks and 

 nape, red crown, lores and breast. Coriphilns taitianus of the 

 Society Islands is dark Ijlue, with the lower surface chiefly w^hite ; 

 C. idiramariniLS of the Marquesas shews a combination of light 

 and dark blue. Lorius extends from the Moluccas to the Solomon 



