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ugly aark blackiih colour, and they are reckoned the leaft venc- 
mous of any. 
The TUmion of a Paroquet 5 by Mr. Rich. Waller. Phil. 
^ Trani:N°2ii. p. 159- 
THERE is a great variety of fpecies in the parrot-kind, 
whether we confider the country, fize or colour 5 Johtijon 
favs, the curious have obferved above an hundred forts of them: 
The fixth fpecies, by Margravm, comes very near our iubjeCt^ 
its fize IS between a iparrow and a black-bird with a ihort neck , 
black eves, a crooked fcarlet bill, greyifli kgs and feet, with 
toes, two before and two behind, like the parrot 5 yet he never 
flands on one f(;ot to cat with the other, as parrots do^ when he 
Hands ftill on the perch, his bread and belly iliew of a curioys 
linht green, his back, and the feathers of his wings, are W- 
whatclarker^ on his pinions are fome fliort blue feathers, as alfo 
leveral on his rump 3 his bill is encompafled up to the eyes with 
a broad beautiful Icarlet circle, reaching alfo down to his throat; 
this part in the hen is of a paler orange-colour, and tnis is the 
only obfervable difference 5 the feathers of the tail, which in all 
fmall paroquets is no longer than the wings are not to be leen but 
vvhen he flutters or fpreadsit; they are about two inches Jong 
nc?r the quill, of a lemor colour, inclining to a green, next a 
icarlet for a pretty fpace, then a narrow ftreak of green on .omc 
of them, after that a black, and lall of all ending in a light green : 
Having opened the Thorax and Ahhmen, by blowina into the 
Jhera Arteria, a large cavity or bladder was railed up al 
along the Abdomen to the edges of the Os Ifchion and faftencd 
to the gizzard, containing in it all the guts and gizzard, but 
excluding the heart and liver; a conformation like this, is ob- 
ferved in" all birds, and peculiar to them : The AJiJsra ArtcrtA 
differs from that of mod other animals, having not onljr a Laryrm 
at the top thereof, as is ufual, but another alio at its entrance 
into the bread, where it is divided, and branches itlelf mco two ; 
from this druaure, which is laid to be common to all parrots, it 
may po^Tibly be, that they can lb readily imitate human voices; 
but this animal never attempts an imitation of words, making 
only a dirill chirping noife, doubling the tone, or making it 
eight notes lower, as ^a dopped organ-pipe is an eighth to the 
fame open: this lower Larynx may aflid the weak hbric ot io 
imall a creature as a parrot, to counterfeit lo bals a voice as a 
»an^s; it being obferved by fome ingenious perlons, that parrots 
