PARROT. 199 



brown ; eye dark ; sides of the head, from the eye to the under 

 mandible, bare, wrinkled, and red ; legs brown black. 



Inhabits Ceylon ; if we may judge from the size of the head in 

 Edwards's plate, this bird should be as large as the Red and blue 

 Maccaw. 



127— GREY COCKATOO. 



L'Ara gris a trompe, Levail. Perr. i. p. 30. pi! 11. 



SIZE very large. Bill in proportion, and black ; the tongue 

 hollowed out at the tip ; general colour of the plumage grey, not 

 very dark ; before the eyes bare ; tail long, rounded at the end, by 

 no means cuneiform ; legs black. 



According to M. Levaillant, it inhabits the Old Continent, but 

 the precise place not mentioned ; it is observed, that the shape of the 

 tongue enables it to penetrate into the substance of the fruits, when 

 taking them for food. This may be related to the Black Cockatoo, 

 but the fact of its being so, not ascertained. 



128.— BANKSIAN COCKATOO— Pl. XXVII. 



Psittacus Banksii, Ind. Om. i. 197. 



magnificus, Nat. Misc. pl. 50. 



Banksian Cockatoo, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 63. pl. 109. Parkins. Voy. p. 144. Cook's Voyi 

 ii. p. 18. Shaiu's Zool. viii. 476. 



SIZE of the Red and blue Maccaw; length twenty-two inches. 

 Bill very large, and horn-coloured, with a black tip ; plumage in 

 general black, the feathers of the head long, so as to admit of being- 

 erected as a crest, but in a quiescent state lie flat on the crown; near 



