1 14 PARROT, 



light red: belly, fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, deep -green 

 varied with red : quills deep blue : tail green above, red be- 

 neath, and bordered with black ; in fhape much cuneated. 

 Place. Inhabits the Molucca Jflands. 



Buffon * will not have this called a Maccaw, as he obferves 

 that there are none in that part of the world. 



Seba fays, his bird came from. Papua, 



Pl. VII. 



" T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill black : the forehead very 



Description. J_j ... - 



dark purplifh black : chin and throat dufky purple : round 



the bafe of the under mandible the feathers, which project over it, 



are green ; the reft of the head, neck, breaft, and belly, very deep 



crimfon : back, rump, and wing coverts, fine deep green : on the 



lower part of the neck, between that and the back, a crefcent of 



blue: the baftard wing, and prime quills, are fine deep blue; 



fecondaries green, fringed with blue : tail cuneiform ; the two 



middle feathers eight inches in length, of a deep blue, deeply 



margined with green, with ends of the laft colour; all the others 



deep blue ; the fhafts of all of them black: the legs dufky. 



Placi. This is a beautiful fpecies, and is found at 'Tonga Tabboo, and 



. the other. Friendly JJles in the South Seas. 



* -Hifl. dis oif. vi. p. 202. 



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