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PLATE 



VI. 



THE BLUE-BREASTED PARROT. 



SIZE, about eleven inches and a half. 



BILL, of an ebony black. 



HEAD, NECK, and BACK, a fine fcarlet. 



BREAST, and SHOULDERS, deep rich blue. 



WINGS, fcarlet; primaries, blue. 



THIGHS, fcarlet, with a few blue feathers intermixed. 



tail, very long, even at the end of a bright fcarlet, 



tipped with orange yellow. 

 This bird is in the polfeffion of Robert child, 



Efq. Banker in London. 



