The Leddbeater's Cockatoo, of 

 wliich a representation is an- 

 nexed, is indigenous to Xew 

 Guinea and New Holland, but 

 this peculiar species is, as yet, 

 but ill-defined. They are re- 

 markable for their great doci- 

 lity, and prefer tlio vicinity of 

 marshy places. The Great 

 Scarlet ]Macca^\-, which is in 

 close proximity to tlie above, 

 is a most gorgeous bird ; and, 

 when in full plumage, measures 

 above three feet in length, in- 

 cluding, of course, tlie tail. 

 The one before us is certainly a 

 sumptuous creature ; but, after 

 all, rather too much like a richly-liveried footman — aa 

 association, perlia])s, somewhat strengthened in our esti- 

 mation, by its beino; so often seen as an inhabitant of lordly 

 mansions, and surrounded by other menial bipeds, 

 almost as gorgeous as itself, and equally as soulless. 

 Pursuing our direction in tlie same way, we arrive at 

 case 104, containing stuffed specimens of the Gallinace- 

 ous tribe. These, from tlieir being common, are toor- 

 generally overhjoked ; but to us, looking at it with an 

 imaginative eye, they speak with the force of a moraliet. 

 What is, indeed, more beautiful tlian the fond devoted 

 aft'eetiou of these creatures to their offspring, teaching, 

 in the blindness of instinctive love, a lesson to proud 

 but cold humanity. The Cock of tlie Woods here 

 depicted, is 

 HOW utterly 

 extinct, as 

 a wild Bri- 

 tish species, 

 though once 

 frequent in 

 these islands. 

 Some few are 

 said to be re- 

 maining in 

 the pine fo- 

 rests of Scot- 

 land, and also 



in the mountainous parts of Ireland ; but this we are 

 not well informed. 



