![]() Mathews’ lead was followed unquestioningly until the late 1980s when Schodde (1989) and Rowley (1990: 3) concluded that the type of Vieillot’s roseicapilla was of the western subspecies, collected by the Baudin expedition in the region of Shark Bay on the mid-western Australian coast. Without explanation then or later, Mathews arbitrarily applied the senior specific name, Cacatua roseicapilla Vieillot, 1817 and its two objective synonyms based on the same type- eos Kuhl, 1820 and rosea Vieillot, 1822-to the eastern subspecies, and introduced the new name assimilis for the then supposedly undescribed western form. First to distinguish east and west subspecies was G.M. ![]() The northern subspecies, kuhli, is not involved in the issue of type identity of roseicapilla, and so is not considered further here. It has three currently recognised subspecies: roseicapilla Vieillot, 1817 in the Australian west, kuhli Mathews, 1912 in the far north, and albiceps Schodde, 1989 in the east (Schodde 1997 Higgins 1999 Dickinson & Remsen 2013 del Hoyo & Collar 2014 Engelhard et al. The Galah ( Eolophus roseicapilla) is a pink-and-grey cockatoo, widespread in and endemic to Australia, and now familiar as a cage bird world-wide. Ornithology Section, South Australian Museum, North Tce., Adelaide, South Australia 5005įrench Studies, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5000 ![]() Australian National Wildlife Collection, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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