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(Psittacus taitianus, Gm.), Coriphilus taitianus, Salvad., Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus., xx., p. 46 (1891). 



PI. 10. " The whole bird black, spots on the head and on the 



shoulders dirty white, the breast feathers waved with 



pale brown, the outer feathers of the tail scarlet and 



yellow with narrow facia of black, the iris dark 



brown, the pupil black, the beak dirty white, with 



the point of the upper mandible dark grey. Black 



Cockatoo." 



This plate, which is also a pencil sketch, represents one 



of the Black Cockatoos (CalyptorhyncJim). Parkinson in his 



Journal (p. 144) writes: "Large black Cocatoos, with scarlet 



and orange-coloured feathers on their tails, and some white spots 



between the beak and the ear, as well as one on each wing." 



Latham, describing his Banksian Cockatoo (Gen. Syn., Suppl., 



p. 63, pi. cix.) refers to Parkinson's Black Cockatoo as being 



probably identical. 



PI. 11. "The beak very dark brown, changing gradually into 

 yellowish toward the base of the upper mandible ; the 

 feet purple brown, the length of the wing in the 

 natural size 7J inches. Anas antarctica. Terra del 

 Fuego." 

 A pencil sketch apparently referable to Nettion flavirostre 

 (V.) ; Salvadori, Cat. B., xxvii., p. 261. 

 PI. 12. "The head, neck, breast and back soot colour, which 

 gradually grows paler on the coverts of the wings to 

 their edges, which are bordered with white ; the large 

 wing feathers and the tail are the same sooty colour 

 but shaded with M. blk. The upper coverts of the 

 tail and the sides pure white; the beak blk., as 

 are the feet, with a spot of yellow on each web. 

 Dec. 22, 1768." 

 = Oceanites oceanicus (Kuhl) ; cf. Salvin, Cat. B., xxv., 

 p. 358. 

 Kuhl (Beitr., p. 136, 1820) gives the first description of this 

 species, but calls it " Procellaria oceanka, Banks," and quotes 

 Tab. 12 of Banks' pictures, this being of course the above- 

 mentioned drawing of Parkinson's. It is not, however, Kuhl's 

 actual type of the species, as the specimen was described by him 

 as having been formerly in RidelPs collection, but now in that of 

 Temminck. It does not appear in the Catalogue of the " Museum 

 des Pays Bas." 



