THE COCKATOOS 



1873 



sionally it is obdurate, and cannot be recaptured without much trouble. The 

 rose-breasted species assembles in smaller flocks than most of the other kinds, from 

 which it also differs in its fondness for shade, resting quietly in the tree tops while 

 its white cousins are soaring in the empyrean above during the midday heat. From 

 its splendid colors and 

 engaging ways it would 

 make an attractive pet, 

 were it not that its dis- 

 cordant screams are more 

 piercing and more fre- 

 quently uttered than 

 those of its allies. 



The slen- 1 

 Slender-Billed 



Cockatoos 



der-billed 



cockatoos, 



of which there are two 

 species, one (Lichmetis 

 nasica) having a wide 

 range in Australia, while 

 the other (/,. pertinator) 

 is confined to Western 

 Australia, take their name 

 from the great length and \ 

 slenderness of the upper 

 mandible, which projects 

 obliquely forward. The 

 former species is repre- 

 sented in the lower figure 

 of the plate on p. 1867, 

 and measures fifteen 

 inches in length, the gen- 

 eral color of the plumage 

 being white. The lores 

 and a narrow band on the 

 forehead are, however, 

 red; while the feathers 

 covering the head, neck, 

 and breast are scarlet at 

 the base, and the under 

 surfaces of the wings and 

 tail are washed with yellow. The crest is small, and confined to the front of the head. 

 The small long-tailed Australian species, known as the cockateel 



{Callopsittacus novce-hollandicz} , differs so remarkably in appearance 

 from the other members of the family that it has been considered to be an ally of 

 the grass parraquets. Nevertheless, as it has the crest and skull of the cockatoos, 

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COCKATEEL. 



The Cockateel 



