PARROT, 



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birds. It is in great efteem from its talking even better than 

 either the Guinea or ajh-cploured Parrot : and it is therefore An- 

 gular, fays Buffon, that it has been only known within this little 

 while *. This bird is particularly ungrateful and mifchievous ; 

 for inftead of returning the notice any one takes of it, it bites, in 

 earneft, every one the moment it is attempted to be ftroaked„ 

 Its looks are lively, but fly ; and it is more agile and playful 

 than any other Parrot. 



The above feems different in manners from the one which I 

 have defcribed ; but as Buffon fpeaks from the general manners 

 of the whole fpecies, it is not to be contradicted by thofe of an 

 individual. 



Lev. Muf. 



Bill 



TENGTH ten inches 



dufky : round the eye blackifh 



red; pale at the point: cere 

 head, neck, breaft, and un- 

 der parts of the body, green : rump the fame, but paler : middle 

 of the back, between the wings, black ; lower part of the back 

 blue : all the wing coverts a full crimfon j baftard wing and fe- 

 cond quills dark green, as is the edge of the wing the whole way 

 round to the firft joint, where it inclines to black : tail rather 

 long, the feathers even at the ends, and of a dark green : legs 

 dufky. 



Native place unknown. 



US3. 



CRIMSON- 

 WINGED 

 PARROT. 



Description. 



• He furely has overlooked the Ihort defcription which Linnaus has given of 

 it ; it cannot be a different bird. 



Q.q* 



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