ORDER SCANSORES. 505 



Black Cockatoo. P. Aterrimus. Gm. or P. Gigas. 

 Lath. Edw. 316. 



Black, with a large crest. East Indies. 



Giant Cockatoo. P. Goliath. Kuhl, or VAra noir 

 a trompe. Vaill. Per. I. pi. 12 and 13. Crest 

 large ; ashen grey in the whole body. East Indies. 



The u4ra gris a trompe. Id. ib. pi. 11, is pro- 

 bably only a variety. 



The name Parrot with a Trunk, is not very appli- 

 cable. The tongue is not hollow ; indeed the 

 tongue, properly speaking, is nothing but the little 

 corneous piece attached to the end of this cylinder. 

 See Geoff. St. Hilaire, ap. vj. Gal. 4. 



It is of this division that M. Vieillot makes his 

 genus, MiCROGLOssus. Gal. pi. 50. 



We might also perhaps make a sub-genus of 



The Nimble Parrots. Pezoporus, Ilig. 



Whose bill is weaker, the tarsi more elevated, and 

 the talons straighter than in other parrots. They 

 walk on the ground, and seek their food in the 

 grass. 



Ground Parrot. P. Formosus. Vaill. I. 32. Nat, 

 Mis. 228. 



Green above, each feather banded with black and 

 yellow ; beneath, yellow, \vith many dark waved 

 bands ; crown and nape, streaked ; forehead, orange. 

 New Holland. 



