GANG-GANG COCKATOO. 
Almost at the same time the bird, was noticed by Grant in Victoria and 
he proposed for it the name Psittacus fimbriatus, which I now use. The 
type was shot on the 31st March, 1801, on Bass’s River in Victoria by Mr. 
Barreillier. Grant says the plate was reproduced from “ a design from the 
elegant pencil of Major-General Davies of the Royal Artillery, to whom 
Governor King presented the preserved specimen.” 
When Kuhl monographed the Parrots he cited as a synonym Psittacus 
phoenicocephalus, a label name in the Paris Museum. As a known habitat 
of the species he had quoted above “ Insula King — autore Peron.” When 
Bourjot St. Hilaire completed Levaillant’s Monograph of the Parrots the 
specimens from King Island, collected by Peron, were figured. It is, therefore, 
certain that the name Psittacus phoenicocephalus was given to the King Island 
birds, probably by Peron himself. It is necessary to comment here upon the 
Latin names used by Bourjot St. Hilaire for the Parrots, and I quote my 
explanation given as Appendix to my List of the Birds of Australia , p. 330, 
1913. “ In 1837-38 Bourjot St. Hilaire prepared the continuation of Les 
Perroquets, commenced by Le Vaillant. Some of the Latin names used by 
this writer have been recorded in synonymy as if they had been properly- 
introduced scientific names. As I read them they are simply Latin equivalents 
of the French vernacular names of the Parrots, and should have no scientific 
value.” 
In order to have an independent opinion I referred to Mr. C. Davies 
Sherborn, who, I was pleased to find, had already considered this work in 
his task of enrolling names for the second part of the Index Animalium, 
and had recorded upon his slip that the Latin names were simply the 
equivalents of the French vernaculars, and were rejected by him on that 
account. 
As the book is a rare and valuable one, I here give an example of the 
nomenclature used : 
Cohors C. 
Subcohors C. 
Le Cacatoes rose. 
Le Cacatoes a casque rouge 
“ Section IV. 
Kakadoe. 
Kakadoe. 
Psitt. kakatoe rosea Vieill. 
Psitt. kakat. rubro galeata 
(adult). 
femelle adulte. 
femelle jeune. 
Le grand Cacatoes a huppe 
galeatus Lath, 
feemina adulta. 
feemina junior. 
Psitt. kakat. sulfureus major, Austr. j 
jaune d’ Austr. 
galeritus Lath. 
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