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G0FFIN8 COCKATOO. 
quently dear, £5 or £6 apiece being the price demanded for them by 
tbe dealers; though occasionally they may be picked up for a much 
less sum: one fine specimen I bought for a sovereign, and gave thirty 
shillings for another, but these are instances of good luck that are not 
to be met with every day, for even quite young individuals are readily 
disposed of for £3 each, and on the continent they are even more scarce 
than in England, and proportionately dearer. 
Mr. Joseph Abrahams, with whom we have dealt for years, is seldom 
without one or two of these charming birds in his shop; and even if 
he has not got them in stock, is able to procure them for connoisseurs, 
owing to his having correspondents and collectors in every part of the 
world, who are constantly sending him rare birds of every kind. 
