ISBN: 9781130859034

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 710 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 710 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: . . . the lories, macaws, and parrakeets. Their robust legs and strong claws indicate the rasorial or scratching propensities of the group; and their powerful bills are able to break the stones of the hardest fruits. They are rather wild, and possess but little imitative power, seldom articulating any thing more than cockatoo. The genus eacatua (Briss. ), from which the sub-family is named, has the bill short and strong, hooked and acute; the wings long, and the tail short and even. About a dozen species are found in the forests of the Moluccas and Australia, some preferring high trees near rivers and swamps, others the open plains; they are shy and hard to approach, though their presence is easily known from a distance by the loud screams from their vast flocks; they feed on vegetable substances, seeds, nuts, tubers, and bulbous roots, which they dig up with their strong claws; they do much injury to trees by stripping off the bark of the smaller branches, cutting it into small pieces, but not using it for food; the eggs, usually 2 in number, are laid in the rotten portions of holes in trees, or in fissures of the rocks. This genus embraces some of the most beautiful species, of large size, of a white plumage tinged with rose color or sulphur yellow, and with large crests. Among the finest is the tricolor-crested cockatoo (7. Leadbeateri, Vigors), with a crest of scarlet, yellow, and white, of long acuminate feathers, with the tips directed forward, which the bird can open and shut like a fan; it is a native of Australia; the whole of the body is white, tinged with crimson on the neck, breast, sides, and under the tail and wings. The sulphurTOL. v. --27 crested cockatoo (G. sulphurea, Gmel. ) resembles the last named, except that pale sulphuryellow take. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<