( ^7 ) 

 THE MAGNIFICENT COCKATOO. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill hooked ; upper mandible moveable. 

 Nostrils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 



Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. two forward and two back- 

 ward. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Even-tailed Black Parrot, with the head fomewhat crefted, the front and 

 fhoulders fpotted with buff; the middle of the tail red, crofTcd with 

 black bars. 



The Bankfian Cockatoo. Lath. Sjjwps. Suppl. p. 6^' pi. 109. 



The Magnificent Cockatoo. Naturalijl's Mijcellany. pi. 50. 



'T^HIS bird, when in full perfeiflion, may be confidered as one of the 

 ■•■ moft auguft of its tribe : it is fubjed however to much variation as to 

 color : the tail, which in fome fpecimens is marked in the middle by a very 

 broad band of bright orange-red, traverfed by numerous ftripes of black, is 

 in others entirely of a vivid red in that part, without the leafl appearance 

 of the black tranfverfe bars. There is alfo a variety ^o highly Angular, as 

 to make it doubtful whether it may not be really a diftind fpecies ; in which 

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