PARROT. 



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Authors talk of a Parrot, variegated with feveral colours, 

 made fo by art *. Mr. Pemelly fays -f-_, that fuch Parrots are 

 frequently met with on the JJle of St. Catharine, and the Coafts of 

 Brafil. The whole plumage, fays he, efpecially the head, neck, 

 back, and belly, were thick fet with feathers, fome of the colour 

 of jonquil, others citron, carmine, crimfon, and all intermixed 

 with green, more or lefs deep, and a lively blue, efpecially about 

 the ears. He was told that the natives plucked out the feathers 

 while young, and putting in fomething of a poifonous nature in 

 the ftead, caufed them to come of a different colour, and feldom 

 by this means loft above five! or fix in a hundred £. 



Counterfeit 

 Parrots. . 



Le Perroquet a telle rouge du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 240. N* 7 Z2f. 

 Le Tarabe, ou Amazone a tete rouge, Buf. oif. vi. p. 21 1. 

 Tarabe, Raii Syn. p. 33. N° $.—Will. orn. p. 114. N° 9. 



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AMAZONS 



PARROT. 



"DIGGER than the Ceram Lory. Bill cinereous : general colour Description. 



green : head,, throat, fore part of the neck, and breaft, red : 

 lefier wing coverts the fame : legs cinereous : claws black. 



Inhabits Brafil: not at Guiana* Place, 



* See Frifch. pi. 49. — PI. enl, 120. — Hijl. des oif. vi. pi. II. 



■J- Voy. aux Malouines, i. p. 177. 



X Buffon fays, on the contrary, that it is a dangerotrs operation, that a great 

 many die under it, and for this reafon they always fell dear. He likewife adds, 

 that the natives ufe the blood of a beautiful blue and gold frog on this occafion. 

 Hijl. des oif. vi. p. 235. See alfo Will. orn. p. 1 10. 



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