THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Calyptor hynchus leachii (not of Kuhl) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. V., pi. 10, 1842 ; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 18, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proo. Zool. Soo. (Lond.) 1875, 
p. 601 (Q.)„ 
Cacatua leachii Schlegel, Joum. fur Orn., 1861, p. 379. 
Calyptorhynchus viridis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XX., p. 112, 1891 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 62, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 609, 1901 ; Asbby, Emu, Vol. V., p. 27, 1905 (Kangaroo Island) ; A. G. Campbell, 
ib., p. 145, 1906 (Kangaroo Island) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 46, 1908. 
Calyptorhynchus viridis viridis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 263, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 123, 1913. 
Calyptorhynchus viridis halmaturinus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 263, 1912 : 
Kangaroo Island ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 123, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., 
p. 269, 1913, Kangaroo Island. 
Harrisornis viridis Mathews, Austr. Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 110, 1915. 
Harrisornis viridis viridis Mathews, ib. 
Harrisornis viridis halmaturinus Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. South Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-parts, including the back, wings, and middle tail- 
feathers black, glossed with bottle-green, the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth 
primary-quills incised on the outer webs and the first to the fourth on the inner 
ones ; the outer tail-feathers black, with a large patch of sealing-wax red occupying 
both webs except on the outer pair where it is confined to the inner webs, the shafts 
of each remaining black ; entire head, including the crest, sides of face, and throat 
smoky-brown, the middle of the feathers somewhat darker ; under-surface, including 
the under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts, black with a smoky shade. Iris 
brown ; feet and tarsi mealy black ; bill horn colour. Total length 540 mm. ; 
culmen 48, wing 356, tail 230, tarsus 14. Figured. Collected at Picton, New 
South Wales, in May, 1899, 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the red of the tail-feathers crossed 
by about five black bars. The red has more yellow in it than in the tail of the male. 
In some specimens there are many yellow feathers on the throat, sides of the neck 
and head. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch one ; sometimes two. White, 44-46 mm. by 29-32. 
Breeding-season. May and June. 
This bird was not differentiated accurately by the earliest workers from the 
Banksian Cockatoo, on account of the variation in plumage of the former and 
also in size from immature to adult. The female of the Banksian species 
seems to have been regarded as distinct from the male, and then the immature 
was noticeably less. Consequently the present species appears to have been 
considered as probably an immature variation, and to have been classed in 
some cases with the fully adult male of the Banksian as a smaller phase. 
The occurrence of the Funereal Cockatoo seems to have confirmed the 
suggestion of variation, and when the differences were accurately fixed. 
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