. The royal natural history. extensile. The colour of the naked skin of the face is subject to considerable varia-tion in the living bird, and, at times of excitement, owing to a kind of blushing. GREAT BLACK COCKATOO, WITH CREST ERECTED {\ liat. size). process, becomes of a deep blood-red. That the enormously powerful bill of this birdmust have some special use is quite evident, and its particular office has been describedby Mr. Wallace in the following interesting account of the creatures habits: Thegreat black cockatoo, writes this observer, frequents the lower parts of the forest,and is se
. The royal natural history. extensile. The colour of the naked skin of the face is subject to considerable varia-tion in the living bird, and, at times of excitement, owing to a kind of blushing. GREAT BLACK COCKATOO, WITH CREST ERECTED {\ liat. size). process, becomes of a deep blood-red. That the enormously powerful bill of this birdmust have some special use is quite evident, and its particular office has been describedby Mr. Wallace in the following interesting account of the creatures habits: Thegreat black cockatoo, writes this observer, frequents the lower parts of the forest,and is seen singly, or at most two or three together. It flies slowly and noiselesslyand may be killed by a comparatively slight wound. It eats various fruits andseeds, but seems more particularly attached to the kernel of the kanary-nut, whichgrows on a lofty forest-tree {Candviam commune), abundant in the islands where
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