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They are easily tamed when taken at an early age, but do not possess the imitative powers of the true Parrots, seldom being able to acquire more than two or three words besides their own pe- culiar note or cry of cockatoo. The first we have to aotice is the 146 TRICOLOUR-CRESTED COCKATOO Plyctolophus Leadbeaterl VIGORS. PLATE XIII. Plyctolophus Leadbeateri, Vigors, Philos. Mag. 1831 p. 55. Lear's Parrots. Cacatua Leadbeateri, Wag. Mon. Psitt. In Abhand. 692, sp. 3. DISTINGUISHED by its tricolou...red crest of scarlet, yellow, and white, composed, like that of the other Cockatoos, of long acuminate feathers, with the tips directed forwards, and which can be erected and ex- panded like a fan, or depressed at the pleasure of the bird. It is a native of Australia, and was first made known and described from a specimen which came into the possession of Mr Leadbeater, well known to ornithologists, and whose name Mr Vigors has selected for its specific title. In size it fuHy equals, or perhaps a little exceeds, the lesser Sulphur- crested Cockatoo.
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