Owl, with golden irides, feen by Parkinfon (p. 145O in New
Holland.
Cockatoo, Pfittacus Galeritus, Latham, index, i. 109. N° 108 :
white, with a iharp pointed creft, fulphur-colored; the bafe of
the tail of the fanje color; iize o f a dunghill cock; moil numerous
and noify.
Yellow, Cook's laft Voyage, i. 109, only mentioned under the
name of yellowifh parroquets.
Blue-bellied, Phillip, p. 152. Lath. Syn. i. p. 213. 14. Brown's
Illujlr. 14. tab. 7. Belly o f a rich blue.
Tabuan, Phillip, p. 153. Latham, i. 214. A molt beautiful
kind, with a long cuneiform tail, green and blue; head and
breaft crimfon; back green.
Pennantian, Lath. Syn. p. 61. Phillip, p. 154- 20- Another
long tailed fpecies of great beauty, fo named by Mr.
Latham:
Crejled Parakeet, Lath. Syn. i. p. 250. 51. The crown, fides,
and throat yellow; on the head a crefl o f fix ilender feathers ;
predominant color o f the reft of the plumage olive brown.
Pacific, Phillip, p. 155.
Pujillus, Latham, index, i. p. 106. White, 262: only feven inches'
long; body and tail duiky olive ; feathers round the bafe o f the
bill and tail fcarlet.
Bankfian Cockatoo, Cook's Voyage, ii. p. 18. Latham vii. 63.
tab. 110. A very large Cockatoo : color black; forehead and chin,
leffer coverts of wings, and belly, fpotted with yellow ■, tail barred
with orange. A magnificent fpecies, called after Sir Jofeph
Banks.
Ground,
Ground Parrot, Pfittacus formofus, Latham,\vAt'/;, i . 1 0 3 .
Nat. Mifc. tab. 2 2 8 . The color is a fine yellowifh green, beautifully
barred and fpotted with black; tail long, iliarply cuneiform,
o f a rich jonquil yellow, fafciated with very numerous bars of jet
biack. On the front, juft above the beak, a fmall patch o f orange-
red ; beak d u iky ; legs pale brown; ftrudture o f the feet remarkable,
viz. much longer, and more delicate than thofe of
any other parrot, and one of the hinder claws long and iharp,
not much unlike that o f a lark.
N e v e r p e r c h e s o n t r e e s , b u t c o n f t a n t l y r u n s a b o u t am o n g f t
f e d g e s , & c . a n d is k n o w n b y o u r p e o p le in New Holland, b y
t h e t i t le o f t h e Ground Parrot, a n d is r e c k o n e d p a r t o f t h e
g a m e o f t h e c o u n t r y .
Pfittaceous Hornbill, Phillip, 165. tab. 2 9 . Latham, index, i . S c y t o r o p s :
141. This is a new genus formed by Mr. Latham: fize o f a
raven ; bill very much arched and carinated ; orbits naked, ca-
runculated. Head, neck, and body, beneath, o f a pale g r e y ;
above, with the wings and tail, cinereous lead color; tail crofted
near the end with a black band.
New Holland, Lath. Syn. vii. p. 7 2 . The bill convex, cari- H o r n - b i l l .
nated, and very gibbous at the bafe, covered with a bare fk in ;
orbits naked, wrinkled, cinereous; plumage in general duiky;
fhafts o f the wings duiky above, white beneath; fize of a
Jay. South Sea Raven, Lath. Syn. i. p. 3 6 9 . 2 . Index, i. 1 5 1 . Phil C row.
mage entirely black, feathers on the chin o f a lingular loofe
texture. -
Carrion, Br. Zool. i. N°7$, is found in New Holland, and is
moil remarkably ihy.