BLACK COCKATOO. 
also been obtained on the mainland. It is the same in plumage, but has 
the yellow ear-coverts of a darker tint, and is also slightly smaller in size. 
Habitat : Tasmania, South Australia.” 
In the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XX., as Salvadori 
did not admit subspecies, he included with specific rank C. xanthonotus, 
recording : “ Exactly like C. funereus in colouring, but smaller in all the 
dimensions. Habitat. : Tasmania and South Australia. Although I have kept 
this species separate from the preceding one, I am not at all sure that I am 
justified in so doing, as there is the most perfect gradation between the two 
forms.” This is a most peculiar decision in view of the measurements he gave : 
funereus : wing 18, tail 14, bill 2.1, tarsus 1.1 inch ; xanthonotus : wing 15-14, 
tail 11-10. 
North, in the Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 63, 1911, 
concluded : “ There are only three Tasmanian skins in the Australian 
Museum Collection, two of which were obtained by Mr. George Masters at 
the Ouse River in March, 1867, and another at Lachlan Vale, during the 
same month. Whether Calyptorhynchus xanthonotus Gould is a distinct 
species from the continental form, C. funereus, I am unable to tell from the 
small number of Tasmanian examples. In addition to the slightly smaller 
size of the latter, they may be distinguished by the broader dull yellow 
margins to the feathers of the under-parts, and to the under wing-coverts 
and tips of the under tail-coverts. The yellow band on the tail-feather is 
also comparatively narrower than in Australian specimens.” 
Under C. funereus he gives as range : “ Queensland, New South Wales, 
Victoria, South Australia, Kangaroo Island.” 
It may be noted that Capt. White stated the Mallacoota (Victoria) birds 
were the same size as the New South Wales specimens. 
My own series show two distinct subspecies to be separable thus : — 
Zanda funerea funerea (Shaw and Nodder). ^ 
Type locality, Port Jackson, N.S.W. 
Range : ? Queensland, New South Wales, ? North Victoria. 
Zanda funerea xanthanota Gould. 
Type locality : Tasmania. 
Syn. Zanda funerea whiteae (Mathews). 
Range : South Victoria, King Island, Bass Straits, Tasmania, ? South 
Australia, ? Kangaroo Island. 
I separated birds from the latter locality in the Austral Avian Record , 
Vol. I., p. 35, April 2, 1912, as Calyptorhynchus funereus whitece , noting : 
Differs from C. f. funereus in its smaller size : wing 281 (typical wing 
314 mm.).” The figures should have read 381 and 414 mm. 
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