220 



PARROT; 



21, 



Var. A. 

 VIOLET LORY. 



Description. 



Place. 



Perroqaet violet, Perm. Defer, de Sunn. vol. ii. p. 175. 



^TpHE bill is black ; very ftrong : iris of a gold-colour : the 

 head, and all the upper parts, of a fine crimfon : breaft and 

 belly fine violet : the head appears as if divided from the body 

 by a line of violet, which paries on each fide to the violet on the 

 breaft, giving it the appearance of the firing of a /hoe-maker's 

 apron * : the fcapulars are of a fine blue : wings and tail green 

 and red ; whether the laft be long or fhort not mentioned. 



Inhabits the coafts of the Amazons Country. I may furely ven*- 

 ture to place this as a variety of the laft, rather than a difti.net 

 fpecies. 



32. 



VARIEGATED 



LORY. 



Description. 



Lev. Muf. 



¥ ENGTH from ten to eleven inches: in fize lefs than the 

 fcarlet Lory. Bill dufky : general colour of the plumage 

 deep fcarlet : the lower part of the neck, and beginning of the 

 back, and round to the breaft, the belly, and vent, are of a fine 

 purplifh blue, but inclining to a greenifh black on the lower part 

 of the belly: the upper part of the wings is wholly red j. the 

 quills are dufky at the ends, but on the inner webs yellow :. the 

 wing, when lifted up, appears beneath to have one third from- the 

 fhoulder red and yellow mixed ; the middle yellow ; and the ends 

 dufky : the tail is very little cuneated ;', the feathers green ; the 



Semble former le collier d'un tablier de Cordonnier. Fermin. 



infide 



