yellow-crested

• For a start, I found that eating breakfast al fresco on the veranda attracted squadrons of yellow-crested cockatoos anxious to share my meal.
• I call him -- is the Soul of the hawks; this, my Mimi, is the Soul of the little yellow-crested kingfisher. —  The Great Taboo
• One of the curious green knolls, so common there, was so thickly covered with the yellow-crested white cockatoo as to give the look of a cap of snow. —  Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
• And now, as he paused in admiration to gaze on the lovely view spread out before him, he felt the burning heat relieved for a moment by a flying cloud; he looked upward -- it was a flight of the yellow-crested cockatoo, which passed rapidly on with deafening screeches. —  Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
• As the sea became more shallow the yellow-crested waves of dirty water mixed with sand assumed an aspect of fury, and lying on my back I seemed to be tossed from one wave to another, while I listened with some apprehension to the melodious report of the man who took the depth of the water: "Fourteen káki" (feet)! —  Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917

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