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browDj appearing as a broad band down the wing : tail fhorr, 

 cuneiform : legs of a pale red. 



I met with this at the late Mr. Boc^dam's, and it was faid to have Place. 



been brought from the South Seas. 



** WITH TAILS EVEN AT THE END. 



'T*HE Great Variety of the Cockatoo with a yellow creji, was feen 

 in vaft flocks in New South Wales, making an horrible noife. 

 The Cockatoo is found in Sumatra, and called there Kaykay. 

 The name of the Lejfer White Cockatoo, in Chinas is Ting-Mew. 



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C IZE of the Red and Blue Maccaw: length twenty-two inches. COCKATOO. 



Bill very large, of a horn-colour, with a black tip: general Pi-- CIX. 

 colour of the plumage black : the feathers of the head pretty long. Description. 

 but in a quiefcent ftate lie flat on the headj on each, juflr at the 

 tip, is a fpot of pale buflF-colour : the wing coverts are alfo mark- 

 ed in the fame manner near the tips : the feathers of the upper 

 part of the breafl: and vent are margined with buffi the lower 

 part of the breafl; and the belly barred with darker and lighter 

 buff-colour: the tail is pretty long, and a little rounded at the 

 end J the two middle feathers are black ; the others the fame at 

 the bafe and ends ; the middle of them, for about one third, of a 

 fine deep crimfon, inclining to orange, croffed with five or fix bars 

 of black, about one third of an inch in breadth, and fomewhat ir- 

 regular, efpecially the outer ones, in which the bars are broken 

 and mottled : legs black» 



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