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SOUTHERN NESTOR 



Nestor hypopollus WAGLER. 

 PLATE XII. 



Nestor hypopolius, Wag. Mon. Psitt. in Abhand- &c., p. 505 

 and 696 Psittacus nestor, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1, p. 110 

 sp. 85 ; Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. in Nov. Act. &c., p. 86 

 Psitt. Australis, Shaw^ Mus. Lever, p. 87. Southern 

 Brown Parrot, Lath. Syn. 1, p. 264, 70. 



THIS curious and remarkable-looking bird, wbich, 

 in some respects, appears to approach tbe Cockatoos, 

 particularly the black species, or Geringores, is a 

 native of New Zealand. Of its natural history we 

 have no particulars in the descriptions given by La- 

 tham, Wagler, &c., these being merely confined to 

 the form of the parts and the colour of the plumage. 

 Its differently-shaped bill, which, in addition to a 

 greater elongation than thai of the other Parrots, 

 .possesses other peculiarities of structure, and the de- 

 nuded tips of the shafts of the tail-feathers seem, 

 however, to indicate an economy in some respects 

 dissimilar to that of the other groups with which it 

 is for the present associated. The bill, which is 



