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colour white, with a cafl of brimftone on the tinder parts : on the 

 head is a creft of a fulphur-colour, and pointed in fhape : beneath 

 each eye is a fulphur-coloured fpot ; and the lower half of the 

 fide tail feathers are of the fame colour on the inner webs : the 

 quills alfo are the fame for two-thirds of their length from the 

 bafe : legs black. 



Inhabits the Molucca Ifles. Buff on obferves, that there are two p LA( 



different forts of this bird, the one much bigger than the other : 

 he ipeaks much of the docility of it ; a fact known to every one 

 who has had it living in their poffeflion. 



Pfittacus coronatus, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 143. N° 21. ^. 



Cockatoo of Guiana, Bauer. Guian. p. 160. CROWNED 



COCKATOO. 

 CIZE of the next fpecies. The forehead is yellow : a creft arifes Description. 



from the top of the head, like that of other Cockatoos, of a 

 fcarlet colour tipped with light blue, and may be erected or de- 

 preffed at will : the colour of the body and tail is green ; the 

 outer feathers of the laft are blue on the outfides : the vent fea- 

 thers are red with blue tips. 



This is Linnaus's defcription, who fays it inhabits Surinam. Place. 



Bancroft fays, that it is lefs than a common Parrot. " The Observation. 

 biil fhort and cheftnut- coloured : head, cheeks, and neck, covered 

 with long, loofe, dull red feathers, variegated with whitifh bars : 

 the feathers at the top of the head are an inch and half in length, 

 and there, as well as thofe of the cheeks and neck, are erected at 

 pleafure : the body and wings are green ; and the feathers of the 

 tail, which are fhort, are fome green, others of a dull red." Thefe 

 are no doubt the fame birds, though the defcription varies a little. 



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