micro gloss us

[Pref.micro-, and Gr. glo a =a tongue.] Ornith .: A genus of Psittacidæ, from the Papuan district and North Australia. John Macgillivray (Voyage of the Rattlesnake , i. 321) speaks of the Micro glo us aterrimus as "an enormous black parrot with crimson cheeks. At Cape York it feeds upon the cabbage of various palms, stripping down the sheath at the base of the leaves with its powerful, acutely-hooked upper mandible." It is popudetailed description of the bird has been given by larly known as the Black Cockatoo. An excellent A. R. Wallace. grapho to write, to draw. micro-graph, subst . [Gr. mikros = small, and f An instrument for executing extremely minute writing and engraving; its general principle is that of the pantograph. One versed or skilled in micrography. mi-crog-ra-pher, s . [Eng. micrograph ; -er.]