. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . ranulated; surface has aslight trace of gloss, also a few limy nodules; colourwhile. Dimension* in inches of single examples: (1) by (2) by This bird first reached the London Zoological Gardens^in 1861. since which time others have been added to theSocietys collection. Russ speaks of it as of late occur-ring occasionally in the trade, and says that Dr. Platenbrought home three examples. In 1907 Mr. WalterGoodfellow brought home a specimen from New Guinea, of which Mr. Seth-Sraith says: A most extraordinarybird, with an enormous bill, w
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . ranulated; surface has aslight trace of gloss, also a few limy nodules; colourwhile. Dimension* in inches of single examples: (1) by (2) by This bird first reached the London Zoological Gardens^in 1861. since which time others have been added to theSocietys collection. Russ speaks of it as of late occur-ring occasionally in the trade, and says that Dr. Platenbrought home three examples. In 1907 Mr. WalterGoodfellow brought home a specimen from New Guinea, of which Mr. Seth-Sraith says: A most extraordinarybird, with an enormous bill, well adapted for breakinghard nuts, upon which it largely subsists in a wild lower part of the face is bare of feathers and theskin bright red. The bird ie wonderfully tame andgentle, and delights in being petted. {The AvictilturalMagazine, Second Series, Vol. V., p. 243.) FuNEREAi, Cockatoo [Cahjptorhynchus funereus). Brownisih-black glosse^d with green, especially on the head ; body-feathers with narrow brown margins, more. Cockatoo belonging to Queen (Photoyraph from life.) or less olivaceous on the undex-surface; tail-feathere,excepting the two central ones, crossed by a broad brun-stone-yeilow belt, more or less variegated with iiregularzigzag brownish-black markings ; external web of outerfeathers and margin of external webs of all the others-f|>rownish-blaok; ear-coverts dull waxy-yellow; beakblatk ; feet mealy blackish-brown ; irides not differentiated, but probably differs much,as in the preceding species. Hab., South-Eastern Aus-tralia and Tasmania. Goidd says of this species ( Handbook, Vol. 11.,p. 21) : Tlie thick brushes clothing the mountain sidesand bordering the coast-line, the trees on the plains, andithe more open country are equally frequented by it; atthe same time it is nowhere verv numerous, but is-usually met with associated in small companies of froniifour to eight in number, except during the breeding F
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