cockatoo

Species of Australian parrot. Notable for the crest of feathers on its head and an ability (in domesticated birds) to talk. Has a workmanlike beak that is used for cracking nuts in its native environment. Do not stick your finger in a strange cockatoo's cage. Tame birds can be affectionate.

Ingredients

• 1 Cockatoo
• 2 stones or
• 1 large piece of ironwood
• water

Equipment

• 1 Billy Can
• 1 Fire

Method

• Place your billy fully of water in the fire.
• Pluck your Cockatoo, remove head, feet and entrails.
• When the water is quite hot, throw the Cockatoo and stones (or Ironwood) in the pot, and wait.
• When the stones are soft, or the ironwood is tender, remove from the pot, and eat.
• If you have a dog, give the cockatoo to it. Otherwise throw it away.

Cock`a*too" (kok`a*tOO"), n. [Malayan kakatUa.] (Zoöl.)

A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinæ, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus.

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