THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
p. 263, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 124, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., 
p. 138, 1915 (Viet.) ; Purnell, id., Vol. XV., p. 40, 1915 (Viet.). 
Callocephalon galeatum tasmanicum Mathews, Austral. Ay. Rec., Vol. II., p. 127, 
Jan. 28, 1915 ; Tasmania. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria ; King Island ; Tasmania (occasional) ; 
South Australia (formerly). 
Adult male. General colour above and below dusky slate-colour, with pale edgings to 
the feathers, which are more strongly pronounced on the hind-neck, sides of the 
neck, entire back, and upper tail-coverts ; bastard-wing and primary coverts dark 
slate-colour ; primary and secondary quills hoary grey, the second, third, fourth, 
and fifth primaries incised on the outer webs, the secondaries barred with white 
on the inner webs and more or less marked with whitish on the outer ones ; tail- 
feathers slate-grey, darker towards the tips and indistinctly barred with whitish 
which is more pronounced on the inner webs ; sides of face, forehead, crown, and 
hind-neck bright red with a nuchal crest of disintegrated feathers, a small slaty-black 
patch on the sides of the hinder crown and a few feathers of the same colour in 
front of the eye ; lower cheeks, sides of the throat, breast, abdomen, sides of the 
body, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts slaty-brown with pale edges 
to the feathers, but the general aspect is duller than the upper surface and the pale 
margins not so pronounced, some of the feathers on the sides of the lower abdomen 
barred with white and tipped with reddish-orange ; quill lining and lower aspect 
of tail-feathers dark slate-colour. Iris hazel ; feet grey ; bill horn-grey. Total 
length 360 mm. ; culmen 31, wing 241, tail 125, tarsus 18. Figured. Collected 
at Dura, Victoria, on the 24th March, 1913. 
Adult female. General colour above slaty-black, with paler slate-colour margins to the 
feathers on the hind-neck, sides of neck, and mantle, and mottled bars of the 
same colour on the feathers of the back, scapulars, bastard-wings, primary and 
secondary quills and tail-feathers ; upper wing-coverts, scapulars, feathers of 
the back, upper tail-coverts, and innermost secondaries narrowly barred with 
white ; crown of head and nuchal crest almost uniform slaty black, the pale edges 
to the feathers scarcely discernible ; sides of the face and throat slate-grey, 
becoming darker grey on the breast, abdomen and flanks, where the feathers are 
narrowly barred with white and more broadly with orange-red ; under tail-coverts 
and under wing-coverts slate-grey barred with white the bars being increased 
in width on the latter and mottled on the under surface of the quills. Iris hazel ; 
feet grey ; bill horn-grey ; culmen 30 mm. ; wing 241. Figured. This is the 
mate of the male described. They were shot together. 
Immature. Resemble the females. 
Nest. A hole in a tree. 
Eggs. Clutch, four ; white, without gloss, 32-33 mm. by 25-27. 
Breeding-season. October to December or January. 
Just as Latham was finishing his Second Supplement to his General Synopsis 
of Birds he met with this strange and beautiful Parrot and added a full 
description in his Addenda. He stated they came from New South Wales, 
but otherwise gave no clue to the source of his information, adding that he 
“ saw another at Mr. Thompson’s.” In the Index Ornith. Suppl., II., he gave 
this the Latin name of Psittacus galeatus, but this name had been used by 
Forster, as noted already. 
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