CHAPTER XXII.
Supplemental Account of Animals BIRDS.
NO.139.BANKIAN COCKATOO.

Order II.Pies.Genus V.Parrot.
This is about the size of the great white cockatoo; the length twenty-two inches.

The bill is exceedingly short, and of a pale lead-colour.

The head feathers are pretty long, so as to enable the bird to erect them into a crest at will: The colour of the head, neck, and under parts of the body are dusky brown, inclining to olive, darkest on the belly: the feathers of the top of the head and back part of the neck are edged with olive; the rest of the plumage on the upper part of the body, the wings, and tail, are of a glossy black; the last 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, otherwise black; the outer edge of the exterior feather black the whole length.

Legs black.
This bird was met with in New South Wales, and is supposed to be a variety, if not a different sex, from the Bankian Cockatoo described in the General Synopsis of Birds, Supplement, p.63.