THE PHILIP ISLAND PARROT. 4ul 



Irs favorite resorts are among rocky ground interspersed with tall trees and its food con 

 s ts mostly of long and succulent vegetable substances. The blossoms of th w h H iscus" 

 afford rt a plentiful supply of food, and in order to enable it to obtain th- sweet J^e o 



LEADBEATER'S COCKATOO.- Cacatua learlbeateri. 



x remitv ,0 ^ vl ^^ ^ * l0Dg ' ^^ ^ SCOO P at the ™** <*** of the 



un IT, ; in 7 '!' \ e t ? e 1 human n;liL As eart * h« often been found upon the long 



pc nanddde, the bird is be heved to seek some portion of its food in t^e .round, and to dig 



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



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