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Title: The children's city
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther
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Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ff, and always attracts acrowd. The handsome Black Cockatoo and the beau-tiful White Cockatoos, with their sulphur crests, arenot lacking in loud voices, and neither are the Lead-beater Cockatoos, nor the Cuban Parrots, nor theRosella Parakeets. From Parrots Hall they passed into the MainHall to see the foreign song birds, the tropical Dovesand Pigeons and the strange tropical Toucans,giant Kingfishers and Hornbills, not forgetting thecentral Flying-Cage which contains a large array ofswimmers, waders, and perchers, and the GlassCourt, which was designed especially for NorthAmerican song-birds. We had better stop and look at the touracous,said Doodle, for they tell us here that of all thethousands of living birds now in the collection ofthe Zoological Society, the most beautiful, perhaps,are a pair of white-crested touracous. And unlikesome ornamental creatures, they are as interestingas they are exquisite in colour. The plumage is arich grass green with a large patch of vivid scarlet
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A DAY IN THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 83 on each wing, and a stiffly erect crest tipped with adelicate brush of white. Every movement is fullof grace, and from their slender necks to their well-proportioned feet they are creatures of beautywhich it is a delight to watch. Their position inclassification has long been a matter of dispute, buttrue to their character of two toes in front and twobehind, they are now usually placed near thecuckoos, with a strong leaning in the direction ofthe parrots, although they are absolutely unlike theselatter birds both in appearance and actions. Themost interesting thing about them lies in the redcolour of the larger wing feathers, this hue takingup a considerable portion of each side of the vane ofthe feathers. When the birds bathe, this pigmentsometimes tinges the water to a slight rose colour, aremarkable fact when we realise how permanentand difficult of extraction the pigments of birdsfeathers usually are. When the proper successionof acid and alkali are

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