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each feather margined with dullilh red, between which and the- 

 brown, on each feather, runs aline of green: fhoulders pale blue,, 

 mixed with a little red : on the lower part of the back the fea- 

 thers have a greater depth of red at the margin ; and, as the fea- 

 thers approach the rump, by covering one another, appear all- 

 red : wing coverts plain brown ; many of the outer ones, and the 

 bend of the wing, pale blue ; but on the laft is a little mixture of' 

 red : quills dufky, with deep blue edges : fecondaries the fame s _ 

 edged with red, with a line of green between, as in the back: tail? 

 cuneiform, feven inches long; general colour greenifh brown; the 

 two middle feathers green down the fhafts; all of them margined 

 on the outer webs with blue, and, except the middle ones, have 

 the tips whitifh : legs dufky. 



I am indebted to Sir Jofeph Banks for this defcription, having. 

 a perfect fpecimen in his pofTeffion. 



Native place uncertain, 



20. 



Var. A.. 

 Description. T ENGTH twelve inches. Bill lead-colour; point yellow;: 

 head, neck, and bread, deep dull crimfon : the upper parts^ 

 or the body, wings, and tail, green : the quills dufky, with blue 

 edges : the tail cuneiform, and four inches in length : . the legs 

 are black. 



Place uncertain. It appears to me as a. variety of the laft ; 

 perhaps the other fex.. 



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