THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Le petit Cacatoes a huppe jaune 
Buff (des Moluques). 
Psitt. kakat. sulfureus minor. 
Sulf. Gm. 
Le petit Cac. des Philippines 
(male ou fern.) 
Psitt. kakat. minor Philippinarum 
(mas vel foem.).” 
It is obvious that such names cannot be utilised in a binomial or 
trinomial nomenclature ; while the names given above appear in the systematic 
scheme the text to the plates is differently lettered ; thus in the present 
case Kahadoe rubrogaleatus appears, and in the third instance above we read 
Kalcadoe sulfureus major vel australensis. 
Mr. J. W. Mellor has written me : “ The Gang-Gang Cockatoo I have 
seen on the River Buchan, Gippsland, Victoria, where, on the 11th December, 
1908, I secured several pairs for my collection. The birds were very intent 
in feeding on the green seeds of a species of wattle (acacia), which had long, 
narrow, pendant pods, about three inches in length ; the birds settled on the 
large eucalyptus trees and then came down to the smaller acacias underneath ; 
they were quite tame, and intent upon getting their food, so that I could 
pick and choose my birds, so as to get pairs, as the cock bird can be easily 
distinguished from the female on account of his bright red topknot, the hen 
having a dullish grey colour here and less bright colour on other parts of 
the body. They breed in the Gippsland district in the large tree country, 
but select high and inaccessible trees, using hollows, and making their nest 
of the rotten wood. The Gang-Gang Cockatoo was once to be seen in South 
Australia, as Mr. William White, a brother of the late Mr. Samuel White, 
the well-known naturalist, tells me that he has seen it in the south-east of 
this State in the ’fifties, when he was interested in a cattle station there, but it 
was not common and he did not know of it nesting there.” 
Captain S. A. White confirms the above note, stating : “ This bird was also 
found in the southern part of the Mt. Lofty Ranges, and was collected there by 
my father in the early days. The specimens procured in Victoria seem 
to have lived almost entirely upon acacia seeds at certain times of the year, 
and their stomachs are so distended with green seeds the smell of the seeds 
penetrates the whole of their body. When feeding in the large acacia trees 
during the day a party of these birds keep up a growling sound all the time.” 
Mr. Edwin Ashby has communicated to me : “ In May, 1892, at Lorn, in 
the Cape Otway Ranges, Victoria, these birds were very numerous, feeding 
in the tops of the forest trees, probably on the gum seeds. Their movements 
were easily followed by the continuous sound of their peculiar wheezy 
notes (with upward inflection). On both occasions that I have visited 
Mt. Dandenong, in Victoria, I have met with this bird, and in June last year 
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