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fipg round the neck, as in the laft; as alfo the dull red fpot or 

 the wings : tail above blue ; beneath dull yellow : legs and claws 

 afli-colour : the two middle tail feathers are very long and blue 5 

 the others (which are only two inches and a half long) are olive 

 green fringed with blue, though in Mr. Edwards's figure the tail 

 feathers feem to fhorten by equal gradations, 

 Jlace. This bird inhabits Bengal. 



Thefe laft I believe to be varieties of each other, as 1 have 

 feen and examined both of them minutely. 



Mr. Sonnerat fays it inhabits Luzonia; and that the fpot on the 

 wings is of a bright red, and the irides yellow : otherwife one 

 defcription might ferve. 



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 Var. B. 



BORNE AN Lev. Muf. 



PARRAKEET. 



Description. T ENGTH from the bill to the middlemoft tail feather but one, 



-twelve inches. The bill has the upper mandible red ; the 



lower black : cere and orbits afh-colour : the whole head of a 



peach-blofibm-colour, with a green tinge in front : from eye to 



eye, palling over the cere, is narrow line of black : from the 



lower mandible arifes a ftreak of black, pafilng obliquely on each 



fide of the neck a little way, and growing wider backwards : 



from the hind head to the tail all the plumage is light green j 



but on the middle of the wing coverts it almoft approaches to 



yellow : the chin,, fore part of the neck, the breaft, and as far as 



the middle of the belly, are of a reddifh bloflbm-colour, with a 



cheftnut tinge : the feathers on the thighs, and middle of the 



belly and vent, are green : all the tail feathers are green, except 



the two middle ones, which are much inclined to blue, and are 



very 



