*5* 



PARROT, 



when broken by their feeding on them, and being exceeding 

 vifcous, catches them like -birdlime. 



60. 



PYGMY 



PARRAKEET. 



Description. 



PtACE, 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH fix inches : body fmall. Bill whitilh : cere dufky : 

 plumage wholly of a bright green : infide of the quills dufky : 

 tail cuneated ; the tips of all the feathers of a greenifh yellow : 

 legs lead-coiour. 



Inhabits fome of the ijlands in the South Seas. The fpecimen 

 above defcribed faid to come from Otaheite, It appears to be 

 the fmalleft of its race. 



61. 



*- GREAT 



WHITE 



COCKATOO. 



Description. 



•'•With TAILS EVEN AT THE END. 



Pfittacus criftatus, Lin. Sjjf. i. p. 143. N° 22. 

 Le Kakatoes, Brif. om. iv. p. 204. N° 8. t. 21. 

 Le Kakatoes a. huppe blanche, Buf. oif. vi. p. 92. 

 Kakatoes des Moluques, PL enl. 263. 



Pfittacus albus criftatus Aldrovandi, Rati Syn. p. 30. N° 1. 



White-crefted Parrot of Aldrovandus, Will. orn. p. 112. t. 15. 



Lev. Muf. 



QIZE of an ordinary Fowl : length eighteen inches 



blackiih : cere black : hides very dark or black * 



The bill is 

 fpace 

 round the eyes naked and white : the colour of the bird is quite 



*Willughby fays yellow ; but they are not of that colour in a fpecimen I have 

 by me, nor in that which BriJJou faw alive at Paris, or that accurate defcribe r 

 would have noticed it. 



g white. 



