. Birds I have kept in years gone by : with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully . TOO. THIS is a very handsome but not, in my opinion, a de-sirable bird: true, I have never owned but a singlespecimen, but which I found so highly objectionable in everyrespect, that I have not had the courage to venture on another. The Rosy, or Rose-breasted Cockatoo is about the samesize as the bird described in the last chapter; the upper partof its body is slate grey, the under rose colour; the shortcrest is rose and white, and the under part of the tail black. The male, as in
. Birds I have kept in years gone by : with original anecdotes and full directions for keeping them successfully . TOO. THIS is a very handsome but not, in my opinion, a de-sirable bird: true, I have never owned but a singlespecimen, but which I found so highly objectionable in everyrespect, that I have not had the courage to venture on another. The Rosy, or Rose-breasted Cockatoo is about the samesize as the bird described in the last chapter; the upper partof its body is slate grey, the under rose colour; the shortcrest is rose and white, and the under part of the tail black. The male, as in the case of Goffins Cockatoo, can be rea-dily distinguished by the black colour of the iris, that of thefemale being brown; otherwise the sexes are indistinguishableapart. These birds are fed on canary and hemp seed, with theaddition of oats and soaked maize as a change, now and do not learn to speak much, but one of them willoccasionally say a word or two: they scream, however, awfullyand almost incessantly: but on the other hand, are quitehardy and will survive in captivity for a number of THE R 0 S E - B R E A S T E D COCKATOO. The Ring-necked ParraJccet. 157 The scientific name of the Eosy Cockatoo is PsittacusroseicapiUus; in German des rosenrothe Kakadu, and in Frenchle Cacatois gris-rose. To Mr. Gedney belongs the distinction of being the onlyperson who has, so far, succeeded in breeding the Eosy Cock-atoo in captivity; but what he has done can, no doubt, beaccomplished by others, that is, if they think it worth theirwhile, which I certainly do not, to make the attempt. Both the Eosy and Goffins Cockatoos require a very strongcage or aviary to lodge them in, for they have immenselypowerful beaks, which they are only too ready to exercise onthe furniture when they have the chance. CHAPTER LII. THE RING-NECKED PAEEAKEET. THIS well known species, which, strange to say, is notalluded to by Bechstein, although its Plum-headed rela-tion fPalceornis cijanocep
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