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a OALYPTORHYNCHUS FUNEREUS, Shaw. 

 Fimereal Cockatoo. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., ep. 401, p. 20. 



" The eggs of this species are white and two in number about 

 one inch and five-eights long by one inch and three-eighths broad, 

 are deposited on the rotten wood in the hollow branch of a large 

 gum." (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust.. Vol. ii., p. 20.) 



Hab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and 

 Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South 

 Australia, Tasmania. {Ramsay.) 



? OALYPTORHYNCHUS XANTH0N0TU8, Gould. 



Yello-w-eared Black Cockatoo. 

 Gould, Sandlh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 402, p. 22. 



" This bird lays two white eggs in some large rotten gum-tree, 

 generally where one of the large branches has rotted off at the 

 fork ; inside this hole, which occasionally extends five or six feet 

 down the bole of the tree, the bird scrapes and clears away some 

 of the rotten wood until a sort of seat is formed ; for it is a very 

 rude attempt at making a nest. The laying commences about the 

 latter end of October or beginning of November. The eggs are 

 one inch and eight lines long by one inch and four lines broad." 

 (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., p. 22.) 



Dr. Ramsay, who has examined one of the types of this species 

 considers it identical with C. funereus. 



Hab. Tasmania. * 



X CALYPTORHYNCHUS BAUDINII, Vigors. 

 Baudln's Cockatoo. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 403, p. 25. 



" This species breeds in the holes of the highest white gum-trees, 

 often in the most dense and retired part of the forest. The eggs 



