206 PARROT. 



137— LESSER CRESTED COCKATOO. 



Psittacus sulphurens, Ind. Orn. i. 109. Gm. Lin. i. 330. Shaiv's Zool. viii. 480. pi. 73- 



■——- albus g-aleritus, Frisch. t. 50. 



Cacatua luteo-cristata, Bris. iv. 206. Id. 8vo. ii. 100. Gerin. t. 117. 



Kakatoeha orientalis, Seba. i. t. 59. 1. Klein, p. 25. 5. 



Kakatoes a huppe jaune, Bitf. vi. 93. PI. enl. 14. 



Crested Parrot, or Cockatoo, Albin.m. pi. 12. 



Lesser white Cockatoo, Gen. Syn. i. 258. Edw. pi. 317. 



LENGTH fourteen inches and a half. Bill and cere blackish ; 

 eye in a naked white skin ; irides reddish ; general colour of the 

 plumage white, inclined to brimstone beneath ; on the head a pointed 

 crest of a sulphur-colour ; beneath the eye a sulphur-coloured spot, 

 and the lower half of the side tail feathers of the last named colour, 

 on the inner webs ; the quills the same, for two-thirds of their length 

 from the base ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Molucca Isles. Buflbn observes, that there are two 

 sorts of this bird, the one much larger than the other, but whether 

 he could mean the preceding may be doubted, as it is scarcely 

 probable that it ever came under his inspection. This lesser species 

 is very docile, more so, we believe, than any other ; all of them are 

 long-lived, but whether to the extent mentioned by Gerini,* has 

 not been ascertained by any other author. The small specimen is 

 very common in China, but if indigenous thereto, is not certain : it 

 is called there Ying-Mu, and Ying-Vos, which signifies the bird that 

 talks other men's words. 



* In Gerini's Work it is averred that it lives at least 33 years. — See Orn. i. p. 96. 



