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purplifh cheftnut ; all the quills have black fhafcs, and are of a 

 dull red beneath : the two middle tail feathers are pale blue 

 above j the next are half red half blue ; and the four outer ones 

 blue, with a tinge of violet next the fhaft : the tail, both of this 

 and the foregoing, is much cuneated, the two middle feathers 

 exceeding the two outer ones by thirteen inches and a half: the 

 whole tail is of a dull red beneath l the legs are brown, and the 

 claws black. 

 Place, Mr. Bancroft fays, that this is fomewhat lefs than the former, 



and that it is lefs common in Guiana, to which part it is peculiar ; 

 and adds, that the bill is wholly of a black colour. 



BriJJon fays, that it inhabits Jamaica, and Brajil likewife, but 

 fets it down as a diftincT: fpecies ; while Linn^us and Buff on clearly 

 think it a variety only of the former. As I have only feen the 

 firft, I here remark the difference in the. PL enlum. : in thelaft 

 the eye is merely encircled with an irregular, rounded; bare, 

 white fkin ; but in the firft, this fkin goes on to the under man- 

 dible. If the fame fpecies, it is probable that this laft may be a 

 bird not come to its full plumage. In Albin's figure there, is a 

 white fpace round the eye, but it does not feem bare of feathers. 



3- P/ittacus militaris, Lin.Syft. i. p. i-jq. N° 2. 



MILITARY T ft n ■ . „, „„ i y 1 n ■ o 



V4PCAW iiargeit Guiana rarrot, Bancroft. Giuan. p. 158. 



Great green Maccaw, Ed-m. t. 313. 



Description. rjpHE bill is black : forehead red : body green : wings and 

 rump blue : tail red, wedge-fhaped, with the tips of the fea- 

 thers blue: the cheeks are naked, and marked with flender lines, 

 compofed of black feathers. 



7 Where 



