BANKSIAN COCKATOO. 
Watling Drawing No. 53 is Latham’s “ Thirdly,” and is a female or 
immature banJcsii. Watling wrote, “ Native name Karratt. One-fourth the 
natural size.” 
Watling No. 55, which seems to have been the bird to which Latham 
gave “Fifthly,” is missing. 
Watling Drawing No. 54 is Latham’s “ Second variety,” and Watling’s 
note reads : “ The length of this bird from the top of his head to the tip of 
his tail 2 feet 5 inches : the extent of the wings from tip to tip 4 feet. Native 
name Karrott. The most common genus in New South Wales.” 
This is a fine painting of a perfect adult male of C. banJcsii. Though 
Phillips and White both figured the smaller species, Watling did not, and 
I believe that he confused the small one with the painting here noted, but 
the measurements given forbid the attachment of the figure to the small 
species. 
When Vieillot dealt with the Cockatoos in the Nouv. Diet, d? Hist. Nat., 
he carefully translated all Latham’s account, placing the whole lot under 
Gacatua banJcsii, citing all the varied descriptions as varieties. When he 
had done this he saw a specimen in the Paris Museum which he described 
separately, but with the proviso that it might still be only a variation. 
This later turned out to be a specimen of the smaller species. His description, 
however, was not sufficient to determine this. 
It might be noted here that Lesson, who had personal experience of 
these birds, visiting Port Jackson, New South Wales, on the “ Coquille,” 
was apparently prejudiced by previous workers, so that he also lumped all the 
species together, but providing a new genus BanJcsianus, and proposed a 
new name, australis , for the conglomerate three species, in order to avoid 
tautonymy. 
About 1819 Temminck came to England, probably to study material 
for his second edition of the Manuel d’ Ornithologie , and found in \the 
collection of the Linnean Society some strange Parrots and Pigeons. These he 
described in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. XIII., which did not 
appear until 1821. At the same time Kuhl visited England, engaged upon 
his Monograph of the Psittacidce. He undoubtedly conferred with Temminck 
in connection with the Parrots and arrived at an understanding, but through 
some confusion of notes their results differed in a most perplexing manner. 
Further, Kuhl s Monograph appeared in 1820, and though his names had 
priority, Temminck’ s were made use of by Vigors and Horsfield, and through 
extraordinary causes quite beyond the bounds of explanation — though 
unprejudiced systematists like Wagler and Gray supported Kuhl — the later 
names of Temminck gained currency. In the case of the Black Cockatoos 
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