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CRESTED 
- COCKATOO. 
DESCRIPTION» 
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The ff is black, except a large yellow patch under each eye: 
the bafe of all but the two middle tail feathers buff, dotted with 
black: bill and legs pale, not common, 
Second variety has no yellow patch beneath the eye: tail feathers 
from the bafe to near the tip plain crimfon-: bill and legs brown ; 
this is moft common. 
Thirdly, without the yellow patch under the eye; but the black. 
plumage fprinkled with yellow dots: the tail crimfon, barred with 
black, juft as in the Sapplement to my Synop/is. 
Fourthly, the yellow patch under the eye compofed of pale ftreaked 
feathers: fide tail feathers deep buff yellow, mottled with brown: 
fore part of the neck and breaft marked with pale yellow buf cref- 
cents. 
Fifthly, {tems a compound between the two laft, being both {potted 
on the wings, and waved beneath: the tail barred above with crimfon, 
and beneath with yellow buff colour. 
Pfittacus galeritus, Jud. Orz. i. p. 109. 80. 
Crefled Cockatoo, White’s Fourn. tab. p. 237. 
IZE of a Dunghill Cock, and two feet three inches in length: the 
bill is moderate in fize, and black: the general colour of the plu- 
mage white: the orbits covered with feathers, thofe of the forehead 
elongated into acreft; they are ten or twelve in number, brimftone 
coloured, about feven inches in length, and pointed at the tips 5- 
behind this the crown is bare: the tail is even at the end, eight 
inches long; the feathers fulphur coloured at the bafe: legs dufky. 
This inhabits New South Wales, and is by fome perfons thought 
to be only a variety of the effer Wbite Cockatoo, which | find to he 
common in China, where it is called Jimg-wos, fignifying the bird 
which talks other men’s words. 
