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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 
scrub (mallee chiefly) and arid lands. It spends much of its time on 
the ground feeding on bulbous roots and the seeds of plants and grasses. 
When disturbed, it rises with a loud screech, sometimes alighting on a 
dead tree, but mostly on the ground again. 
Nest .—In a hollow limb or hole in a tree. 
EQffc -—Three or four, white. Breeding-season: September to 
November. 
13. Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatuni Grant 
Cal-lo-cepJi-al-on—G k, callos, beauty; Gk, cephale, head: fim-bri-a-tum— 
L., fimbriatus, fringed. 
Distribution .—New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, King Island, 
and formerly in South Australia. 
Notes .—Also called Red-headed Cockatoo or Parrot, Red-crowned 
Cockatoo or Parrot, and Galah. Usually in pairs or small flocks, 
frequenting chiefly heavily timbered mountain ranges. It procures most 
o its ood in trees, and is generally seen feeding on the seeds of eucalypts 
as wdl 33 different species of acacia. It has a peculiar wheezy call-note, 
and when feeding- also utters a quaint growding sound. Food: seeds of 
various kinds of trees, particularly acacias, generally eaten when green. 
fron/thefground. h ° 1I °"' ' imb ° r h °' e in 1 tree ' at a c< “ sidmW[! ''“l* 
or j™7 L:SUa,ly f0ur ’ "' hilC ' H ree ding-season: October to December 
14. Glossy Black Cockatoo Calypiorhynchus latlmni Temminck 
who described many Austrian bhdl ’' am ° US Engl ‘ Sl ' “"''“'“‘“S' 5 * 
AusSr^nga7oo r ?s7a„d) ntral Quee " sland Victoria and South 
«nalfSSr1S, B ! a <* C-'katoo. Usually in pairs or 
fores,-laX U ?s geSal!f s «i Hf™ 1 T.'™ "4 s “ d <*” 
feeding it i7easy7o mTroachTnid tQ . const * tu,e principal food. When 
larly laboured and heUy flight, to a ncarl.y'irce '* m ° VCS ' W ‘ th “ P”* 1 " 
Nest. In a hollow limb or hole in a tree. 
Egg- Dull white. Breeding-season: March to August. 
T k Coc,iato ° ***•«*»■*« show 
7 e lls ~-E., funereus, funereal, black. 
Australia, King ? Island° n and C Tasman?a UeenSland t0 Victoria and South 
