448 -.< HISTORY OF 



only being blue. The base of the under jaw is 

 whitish ; the legs are brown. 



CRESTED WHITE COCKATOO. 

 I 



This bird is undoubtedly only a variety of 

 the Psittacus Cristatus of Linnseus, or large 

 White Cockatoo; the beak and legs are black, 

 which indeed seems the case with all the varie- 

 ties; the crest is yellow, as well as the under 

 parts of the tail and wings ; the other parts are 

 of a dusky white. 



From the great variety of the feathered tribe 

 I have described, and which are indeed only a 

 few of the many daily seen, it will appear evi- 

 dent, that New South Wales is richly stored 

 with some of the most beautiful works of the 

 creation* 



