GANG-GANG COCKATOO. 
(1915) I saw them in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, but I have never 
seen them in this State.” 
Gould wrote as follows : “ The only information I can give respecting this 
fine species is that it is a native of the forests bordering the south coast of 
Australia, some of the larger islands in Bass’s Straits, and the northern parts 
of Tasmania.” 
Mr. Littler wrote me some years ago that his correspondents denied its 
existence in Tasmania, and concluded that its inclusion among Tasmanian 
birds was due to the fact that it was found on King Island. One correspondent, 
however, recollected seeing some strange birds which he afterwards determined 
as Gang-Gangs, but these were obviously stragglers. However, I have 
a specimen procured in Tasmania but it may also have been a straggler 
from King Island. 
Campbell’s range reads : “ through eastern forests, but not in great 
numbers, from South Queensland to Tasmania. . . . Probably the bird is 
nowhere more frequently met with than in the Snowy River district and 
other places in Gippsland. Its most westerly range is the Grampians.” 
In the South Australian Ornithologist, Vol. I., pt. iii. , p. 17, 1914, is a note, 
unsigned, reading : “The Gang-Gang Cockatoo ( Callocephalon galeatum), 
now found in Victoria, in the early days extended its habitation to South 
Australia, and Mr. William White, of the Reedbeds, has a specimen that he 
shot in the ranges at Mosquito Plains, near Kalangadoo, in the south-east 
of South Australia in 1858. Mr. White states that he occasionally saw these 
birds in the district while he was on the Tatiara Station, but they were at no 
time plentiful, and never stayed to nest.” 
From the Australian Museum Special Catalogue No. 1, Vol. III., 1 give 
the following notes : Mr. Robert Grant wrote : “ I have shot Gang-Gangs 
ail over the ranges around Lithgow on the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 
but particularly at Marrangaroo, Badger Brush, and Sodwalls. In the spring 
the adults are usually met with in pairs, and in summer are more ofteh seen 
accompanied by their young. In the autumn and winter months they 
congregate in flocks from ten to twenty or thirty in number. On one occasion 
my brother and I shot eighteen from one tree, which were attracted by the 
cries of two of their wounded mates lying on the ground. These birds can 
inflict a nasty bite. A wounded female I attempted to pick up fastened on 
to my right thumb, the top of which it nearly bit through.” 
Mr. G. A. Heartland noted : “ Whilst most species of Cockatoos feed 
principally on grain or leguminous seeds, Callocephalon galeatum lives almost 
exclusively on the seed of the Eucalypt. I recently skinned a pair of Gang- 
Gang Cockatoos from Croydon, and from the crop of each bird took an egg- 
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