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CASSELL'S BOOK OK BIRDS. 



of a brimstone colour, edged with dusky red. The spaces round the eyes are blackish brown, 

 the beak light horn colour, the feet black and sprinkled with a greyish kind of dust. We have 

 no knowledge whatever of these birds in their native state. Gould tells us that they are found 

 in the woods on the southern coast of Australia, and on some of the neighbouring islands, as 

 also in the northern parts of Van Diemen's Land, where they inhabit the highest trees, and 

 luxuriate upon the seeds of the different kinds of Eucalyptus. 



THE HELMET COCKATOO {CalliCiplialus galealns). 



Many species of Cockatoos are remarkable for the peculiar formation of their beaks, the tipper 

 part of which is unusually prolonged. These birds form a distinct group, but much resemble the 

 true Cockatoos, and have therefore been placed among them. Such, for example, is 



THE NOSE COCKATOO. 



The Nose Cockatoo (Licmetis nasicus) is from sixteen to seventeen inches in length ; the beak 

 measures along the ridge about two inches. Both sexes are of the same colour, the whole plumage 

 being white, the under-wing and tail-covers mottled with pale brimstone yellow. All the feathers on 



