PARROT. 201 



129— SOLANDERS COCKATOO. 



Psitt. Solandri, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 113. 



LENGTH twenty inches. The bill lead-colour, enlarged, and 

 swelling, or rounded at the sides ; head, neck, and under parts brown, 

 tinged with yellow, chiefly about the ears ; wings and tail greenish 

 black, the latter more inclined to black, with a large space of 

 crimson in the middle of all but the two internal feathers, crossed 

 with five narrow black bands. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and at first appearance might be taken 

 for a further Variety, on account of the markings on the lateral tail 

 feathers, were it not for the shape of the bill, in which it most 

 resembles the following. 



130.— COOK'S COCKATOO. 



Psittacus Banksii, Ind. Orn. i. 107. y. 



— — — • Cookii, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 113. 



Banksian Cockatoo, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 91. B. Phil. Voy. pi. in p. 267. var. 



Crimson-tailed Cockatoo, Shaw's Zool. viii. 477. 



THIS is twenty-three inches in length. Bill lead-colour, enlarged 

 and swelling at the sides ; head feathers long, so as to be capable of 

 erection at the will of the bird, and on the fore part covering the base 

 of the bill ; head, neck, and under parts dull brown, margined on 

 the crown and nape with olive ; body above, wings, and tail glossy 

 black ; all but the two middle feathers of the last deep crimson in the 

 middle, but not banded with black as in the Banksian Species 



Inhabits New South Wales, chiefly on the eastern coast, in Ihe 

 neighbourhood of Port Jackson ; said to feed on fruits, also the roots 



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