THE 



FUNEREAL COCKATOO. 



Generic Character, 



5/7/ hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 

 Nojirils round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 

 Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing, viz. two 

 toes forward, and two backward. 



Specific Character, 



EVEN-TAILED BLACK COCKATOO, with 

 the middle of the tail ftraw-coloured, freck- 

 led with black. 



The general appearance of this bird is fo very 

 limilar to that of the magnificent or Bankfian Cock- 

 atooj that the chief circumftance in which it differs 

 is the colour of the middle part of the tail ; which 

 inftead of being red barred with black, as in that 

 bird, is of a dull ftraw-colour, thickly fprinkled 

 with fmall fpecks of black. The fize of the bird is 

 alfo fuperior to that of the Bankfian, and upon the 

 whole there can be no doubt of its conftituting a 

 diftincl fpecies. It is perfedly new, having been 

 imported with other recently difcovered birds in 

 the laft veffels from New Holland. 



