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a fine fcarlet: the wing coverts are all of a fine reddifh colour: 

 tail four inches and a half long, and much cuneated : legs and 

 claws of a pale flefh-colour. 

 Inhabits the Eajl Indies* 



Place. 



La Perruche fouris, Suf. oif. vl. p. 148. 

 Perruche a poitrine grife, PL enl. 768. 

 Perruche, Pernetty Voy. aux Malouines, vol. 



1. p. 3 1 1.' 



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GREY- 



BREASTED 



PARRAKEET. 



T. ENGTH ten inches. The bill light grey : the face, throat, Description. 



and bread, of a rat grey : the reft of the body olive green, 

 except the quills, which are of a deep green : tail five inches long : 

 legs grey. Buffon obferves, that the dead and dull colour of 

 the plumage gives the bird, an air of melancholy; for it is lefs 

 bright than any of the fpecies. . 



PJace unknown. 



Pernetty fays that his bird was of the fize of a Thrufh. 

 Bill fhort, very hooked, and of a flefh-colour : plumage entirely 

 green, except the neck, breaft, and a fmall part of the belly, 

 which were of a filvery grey : tail very long. 



Thefe, fays he, were met with at Montevideo, and bought by 

 the failors for two piaftres apiece. They were tame and gentle, 

 eafily learned to fpeak, and articulate well, and were pleafed 

 with company, too often joining in converfation with them. It 

 was the common opinion, that they lived but one year, if confined 

 in a cage. This fpecies is not far remote from the other, if not- 

 the very fame. 



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