GLOSSY COCKATOO. 
Vigors and Horsfield noted that the Linnean Society’s specimens 
were not collected by Caley, but under the name cookii gave a note, already 
reproduced, which may refer to our bird. Under the name C. solandri ? 
they write : “ In describing and giving a name to this bird, M. Temminck 
expresses his doubts as to its being a distinct species, or the young of 
the preceding G. cookii ; and he clearly states the arguments on both sides 
the question. As far as we can judge, it seems probable that the birds 
will prove distinct. But this is a mere matter of fact, which we hope will 
be ascertained shortly ; and as such we leave it to time, without indulging in 
conjecture.” 
Wagler, in his Monograph, ranged the Banksian Cockatoo of Phillips as 
the immature of G. leachii, but recognised the Banksian Cockatoo of White 
as P. temminkii Kuhl, and thereunder placed Vieillot’s C. viridis : this is the 
first time this name had been allocated. 
Gould wrongly determined this species as C. leachii Kuhl, and many 
writers accepted this name, while the majority of those who did not, continued 
to use Vigors and Horsfield’s wrong acceptance of C. solandri. This continued 
until the publication of the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum , 
Vol. XX., 1891, when Salvadori used C alyptorhynchus viridis as of Vieillot. 
As above noted, the description was incomplete, but Pucheran, as long ago 
as 1852, had shown fcom examination of the type that Wagler was correct in 
referring it to this species. His work was, however, ignored for forty years. 
Through the confusion no life-history was known until Gould’s time, so 
I reproduce his account under the name of G alyptorhynchus leachii : “ Is the 
least species of the genus yet discovered, and, independently of its smaller 
size, it may be distinguished from its congeners by the more swollen and 
gibbous form of its bill. Its native habitat is Xew South IVales, Victoria, 
and South Australia. ... So invariably did I find it among the Gasuarince , 
that those trees appear to be as essential to its existence as the Banksice are to 
that of some species of Honey-eater ; the crops of those I killed were 
mvariably filled with the seeds of the trees in question. Its disposition is 
less shy and distrusting than those of the Calyptorhynchi banksii and funereus, 
but little stratagem being required to get within gunshot; when one is 
killed or wounded, the rest of the flock either fly around or perch on the 
neighbouring trees, and every one may be procured. It has the feeble, whining 
cafi of the other members of the genus. Its flight is laboured and heavy ; 
but when it is necessary for it to pass to a distant part of the country, it 
mounts high in the air and sustains a flight of many miles. 
It is not unusual to find individuals of this species with yellow feathers 
on the cheeks and other parts of the head : this variation I am unable to 
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