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RED-VENTED
COCKATOO.
Le petit Kakatoès, Brif. orn. iv. p. 212. N° 11. t. 22. f. u .
Le petit Kakatoès à bec couleur de Chair, Bu/, oif. vi. p. 96.
Petit Kakatoès des Philippines, PI. enl. 191.
Red-vented Cockatoo, Brown. Illufi. p. 10. t. 5.
D e s c r i p t io n . T 'H E length o f this bird is thirteen inches and a. half ; and its;
fize is that o f the grey Parrot. The bill is white ; the bafe
cinereous: cere greyifh : orbits yellowHh red: general colour,
white : the head is crefted, the longeft feathers o f which are an
inch and a half in length ; thefe are fulphur-coloured at the bafe*.
and white at the tips ; fome o f the under ones are pale red, but
do not appear except the creft be eredted : the two middle tail
feathers are white. ; the fide ones -the fame, but are fulphur-coloured
on the inner webs from the bafe to the middle : under tail
coverts red tipped with white : the legs, and claws, hoary, lead? -
colour.
Place. Inhabits the Philippine IJles.
Mr. Brown drew his bird from a living fpecimenirt the pofief-
fion o f Lady Read.
Buffon obferves that the bill is reddifh brown; and that
it is even lefs than the grey Parrot* being the leaft of its.,
race.
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WHITE
COCKATOO.
Le Kakatoès a hupe jaune, Brif. orn. iv. p. 206. N°
Buf. oif. VI. p. 93.
■ ■ . . . . . . Pi. enl. 14.
Grofle weifle Papagey, ou Cacadou, Frifch. t. 50;
Crefted Parrot or Cockatoo, Alb. iii. t. 12.
Lefler white Cockatoo, Edw. glean, t. 317.
Dk&cription» J ^ E N G T H fourteen inches and a half. Bill and cere blàckilh fc
eye placed in a naked white flrin : irides reddifh : général
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colour white, with a caft of brimftone on the under parts : on the
head is a creft of a fulphur-colour, and pointed in fhape: beneath
each eye is a fulphur-coloured Ipot; and the lower half of the
fide tail feathers are of the fame colour on the inner webs : the
quills alfo are the fame for two-thirds of their length from the
bafe : legs black.
Inhabits the Molucca IJles. Buffon obferves, that there are two
different forts of this bird, the one much bigger than the other :
he lpeaks much of the docility of i t ; a fa£t known to every one
who has had it living in their pofleffion.
Tfittacus coronatus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 143. N° 2 i.
Cockatoo of Guiana, Bancr. Gut an. p. 160.
C IZ E of the next fpecies. The forehead is yellow : a creft arifes
from the top of the head, like that of other Cockatoos, of a
leaflet colour tipped with light blue, and may be erefted or de-
prefied at w ill: the colour of the body and tail is green; the
outer feathers of the laft are blue on the outfides : the vent fea-
.thers are red with .blue tips.
This is Linnaeus’s defcription, who fays irinhabifs Surinam.
Bancroft fays, that it is lefs than a common Parrot, ll The
bill fhort and cheftnut-coloured : head, cheeks, and neck, covered
with long, lo'ofe, dull red feathers, variegated with whitifh bars:
the feathers at the top of ..the head are an inch and half in length,
and there, as well as thofe of the cheeks and neck, are erefted at
pleafure : the body and wings are green ; and the feathers of the
tail, which are fhort, are fome green, others of a dull red.” Thefe
are no doubt the fame birds, though the defcription varies a little.
Le
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CROWNED
COCKATOO.
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