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SlfiLLATED GERINGORE. 



Catyptorynchus stellatus. WAGLER. 4 



PLATE XV. 



Calyptorynchus stellatus, Wagler, Mono. Psitt. in Abhand. 

 $c. 9 p. 685, sp. 3 __ Banksian Cockatoo, Lath. Syn. Sup. 

 ii. var. ii. p. 92. 



THIS species, which appears to bear a near affi- 

 nity to the Calyptorynchus Solandri of Vigors and 

 Horsf. (Psittacus Solandri, Temm.), and with which 

 it seems to have been confounded, is described as a 

 distinct species by Wagler, in his monograph of the 

 family. The specific characters, as contrasted with 

 those of the Solanders Geringore, consist in the 

 whiter colour of the bill, the greater proportion of 

 yellow upon the head and cheeks, and the spots of 

 that colour upon the lesser wing-coverts, with some 

 deviation in the colour and markings of the lateral 

 tail-feathers. It is also somewhat inferior in size ; in 

 other respects the resemblance is remarkably close , 

 but as specific distinction is well known to exist in 

 other instances where the characters are not more 

 prominently marked, we are justified in considering 



