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NEW S O U T FI WALES. 
CHAPTER XXIL 
Supplemental Account of Animals, 
Birds. 
Order II. Pies. 
Genus V. Parrot. 
No. 1 39. Bankian Cockatoo. 
This is about the lize of the great white cockatoo ; 
the length twenty-two inches. The bill is exceedingly 
fhort, and of a pale lead-colour. The head feathers are 
pretty long, fo as to enable the bird to ere£l: them into a 
creft at will : The colour of the head, neck, and under 
parts of the body are dufky brown, inclining to olive, 
darkeft on the belly : the feathers of the top of the head 
and back part of the neck are edged with olive ; the reft 
of the plumage on the upper part of the body, the 
wings, and tail, are of a gloffy black; the laft is pretty 
long and a little rounded at the end; the two middle 
feathers are wholly black ; the others of a fine vermilion 
in the middle for about one-third, otherwife black ; the 
outer edge of the exterior feather black the whole 
length. Legs black. 
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