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PARROT. 



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RED-VENTED 

 COCKATOO. 



Description. 



?lace. 



Le petit Kakatoes, Sri/, cm. iv. p. 212. N° 11. t. 22. f. 1. 

 Le petit Kakatoes a bee couleur de Chair, Buf. oif. vi. p. 96. 

 Petit Kakatoes des Philippines, PL enl. 191. 

 Red-vented Cockatoo, Brown. 'Illuft, p. 10. t. 5. 



*T r HE length of this bird is thirteen inches and a half; and its 

 fize is that of the grey Parrot. The bill is white; the bale 

 cinereous : cere greyilh : orbits yellowifh red : general colour 

 white: the head is crefted, the longeft feathers of which are an 

 inch and a half in length; thefe are fulphur-coloured at the bafe, . 

 and white at the tips; fome of the under ones are pale red, but 

 do not appear except the creft be erected : the two middle tail, 

 feathers are white ; the fide ones the fame,, but- are fulphur-co- 

 loured on the inner webs from the bafe'to the middle : under tail 

 coverts red tipped with white: the legs and claws, hoary lead- 

 colour. 



Inhabits the Philippine IJles. 



Mr. Brown drew his .bird from a living fpecimen in the pofiefe 

 fion of Lady Read. 



Buffon obferves that the bill is reddifh brown ; and that 

 it is even lefs than the grey Parrot, being the leaft of its 

 race. 



°4" Le Kakatoes a hupejaune, Brif. orn.'vr. p. 206. N° g. 



4- LESSER „ ... 



WHITE B "f- m J- vr ' P- 93- 



COCKATOO. — i PL enl. 14. 



GrofTe.weifle Papagey, ou Cacadou, Fri/cb. t. 50. 

 Crefted Parrot or Cockatoo, Alb. iii. t. 12. 

 LeiFer white Cockatoo, Edi». glean, t. 317. 



Description. T ENGTH fourteen inches and a half. Bill and cere blackifh 



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eye placed in a naked white fkin : irides reddifh : general 



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