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This bird ileeps fufpended by one foot, like the iaft fpecies - y Manners. 

 and, like that, is very fond of the frefh juice of the cocoa-tree, 

 called Callou *. 



In Sir A. Lever's colleftion there are two birds, which I. take to 

 be male and female of this fpecies i the one anfwers to the de- 

 scription above, but the yellow on the back part of the neck is 

 fcarce vifible : the tail itlelf is green, but the upper tail coverts 

 are crimfon, and as long as the tail itfelf, or very nearly ; fo as, at 

 a diftance, the whole tail appears of this colour I the colour be- 

 tween the legs to the vent is of a very light green ': quills dufky, 

 the outer edge green. 



The other bird is moftly green : on the throat is a yellow 

 fpot : the tail and its coverts exactly the fame as in the laft : bill 

 and' legs pale. 



OJ&ec-kf met with this bird at Java^ where the natives call 

 it Parkicki. " If this is put in a cage, it whittles very fel- 

 dom, and commonly grows quite fullen t it hangs itfelf with its 

 feet fo, that the back is turned towards the earth, and feldom 

 changes this fituation ; it is fed with boiled rice ; in which man- 

 ner, in the year 1752, one was brought to Gottenburgh" 



Toreeft obferves* that fame of them J have a blue fpot on the 

 head ; but the general colour dark green on the back, and light 

 green under the belly: the upper fide of the tail and the throat 

 ted : the bill black. " We obferved that their nefts were re- 



* This is a whitifti liq'uor that flows from the ends of the branches, when the 

 fruit is frefh cut off. The Indians fatten A hollow cane to that part of the 

 branch, that they may colleft this liquor, which is very agreeable before it runs 

 into fermentation, tailing not unlike new cyder. Hijl* desoif. p. 164. 



+ Fey. vol. i. p. 155. 



% At Queda, in the Straits of Malacca. See 'QJbectft Foy, vol. ii. p. 219, 



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