THE PHILIP ISLAND PARROT. 



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Its favorite resorts are among rocky ground interspersed with tall trees, and its food con- 

 sists mostly of long and succulent vegetable substances. The blossoms of the white Hibiscus 

 afford it a plentiful supply of food, and in order to enable it to obtain the sweet juices of 



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LEADBEATES'S COCKATOO.— Cacatun leaOlieaten. 



the flowers, the tongue is furnished with a long, narrow, horny scoop at the under side of the 

 extremity, not very unlike the human nail. As earth has often been found upon the long 

 upper mandible, the bird is believed to seek some portion of its food in the ground, and to dig 

 up with its pick-axe of a bill the ground nuts and other subterraneous vegetation. This opinion 



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