THE ROSEATE COCKATOO. 



CACKATTO BOSEA. — VIEILLOT, 



PLATE a 



The country of which this species is an inhabi- 

 tant, was unknown to Vieillot, who figured it from 

 a specimen in the Museum of Natural History, in 

 the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. He, however, sus- 

 pects that it is a native of India. In the Edinbiu-gh 

 College Museum there are two specimens of a 

 species, if not the same, nearly allied to it ; and 

 were presented by Sir Thomas Brisbane Mac- 

 dougal, who brought them from New Holland. 

 They differ in the back, wings, and tail, being of a 

 redder ash colour than that figured by Vieillot, from 

 which our plate is copied. 



The Roseate Cockatoo has its crest, the whole 

 head, neck, and under part of the body, of a fine 

 rose colour ; the upper part is of a beautiful gray, 

 deeper on the wings and tail ; the bill is white in 

 the dead individual, and the feet are brown. Its 

 total length is twelve inches. 



