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Where it inhabits is not mentioned; nor does Unnaus quote 

 any author; but it furely can be no other than that of Edwards, 

 mentioned above; if fo, by the outline, which is exprefTed as large 

 as life, it fbould feem to be not far fhort of the fize of the for- 

 mer ones. He fays, that the irides are yellow : under tail co- 

 verts mixed with red : quills, and part of the row of feathers 

 above them, fine fky blue : middle of the back, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts, blue : infide of the wings, and under the tail, of a 

 dirty orange-colour : legs dufky flefh-colour. 



Mr. Edwards's defcription was taken from a living bird at Ph. 

 Carteret Webb's, Efq. 



Mr. Bancroft's largeft Parrot of Guiana may perhaps prove to 

 be the fame with the above *. He fays, it is almoft as big as a 

 Maccaw. It's bill is long, (lender, and of a flefh-colour: the 

 body covered with feathers of a beautiful pea-green : thofe at the 

 top of the head, and upper edge of the wing, red : tail long, 

 compofed of green, red, and purple feathers. Thefe, he fays, are . 

 frequent at Demerary, and often fpeak very diflintl. Called by 

 the natives Acufhe, 



* Buffon will have it to be a variety of his 4ra vert, Hift. des oif. vi. p. 20K 



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