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fide of the head are two blue fpots j one before, the other behind the 

 eyes : throat ferruginous red ; from this part the feathers are red, 

 and the tips marked with longitudinal black lines : the wing co- 

 verts have white fhafts : the two firft of the prime quills are green ; 

 the others of a deep blue, and all of them have the (hafts white : 

 the two middle tail feathers are green, with white fhafts ; the 

 others red, with the fhafts black : legs and claws of a fine 

 black. 

 ?LACE - Sajd to inhabit Japan. Mr. Willughby fufpecls this to be fic- 



titious, as Aldrovandus drew his defcription merely from a paint", 

 ing fent out of Japan, 



12. Pfittacus Amboinenfis, Lin. Syjf.i. p. 141. N° 9. 



AMBOINA 

 RED PARROT. 



Le Perruche rouge d'Amboine, Brif. orn. iv. p. 378. t. 28. f. 2, 

 Le Lori Perruche tricolor, Buf. oif. vi. p. 138. 

 Perruche rouge d'Amboine, PI. enl. 240. 



Description. A Little bigger than a Turtle : length fifteen inches and a half. 

 The bill is red, with a black tip : head, throat, neck, and 

 tinder parts, fine fcarlet : back, rump, upper tail, lefTer under 

 wing coverts, and the edge of the wing, fine blue : under tail 

 coverts violet in the middle, furrounded with red : all the quills 

 are blackifh beneath, but the greater ones above are deep green 

 on the outer edges and tips, and the inner fide blackifh : the two 

 middle tail feathers are nine inches and a half in length, and of a 

 violet brown ; the reft fhorten by degrees, and are of the fame co- 

 lour on the outer edge only, the inner being blackifh ; the two 

 outmoft on each fide have alfo the inner margin edged with red -, 



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