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tail black, three inches long j the two middle feathers black >, 

 the reft cinereous, with black tips : the legs red : claws black. 

 Place. Inhabits dmboina, in the Eajl Indies. 



PURPLE- leV ' Mu/ ° 



CROWNED P. 



Description. O IZE of a Turtle: length nine inches, Bill three quarters of 

 an inch in length, and yellowifh : irides of a pale yellow : 

 forehead, to the middle of the crown, purple : the head, neck, 

 and under parts of the body, are of a pale green, inclining to 

 alh-colour : vent, and under tail coverts, yellow : all the upper 

 parts of the body of a beautiful deep green, and very glofiy : 

 quills black ; the two outer ones wholly fo, the others edged 

 with green ; the fecondaries fringed with yellow on the outer 

 margins: the tail is three inches and a half long; the feathers 

 pretty even, all of them forhewhat pointed at the end ; the co- 

 lour a greenifh black, the outer edges green ; when the tail is 

 fpread open, a greyilh bar appears near the end, but on infpeftion 

 it proves interrupted, the colour only occupying the inner webs 

 of each feather : the legs are very rough, of a dufky black : 

 the claws black. 

 Place and This was defcribed from a fpecimen from Otaheite-, but I fine! 



of thefe birds great varieties, according to the different ifiands 

 from which they are brought, for they inhabit the whole of the 

 Pacific Ocean within the tropics. In Otaheite the crown is of a 

 very faint purple ; at Uliatea, and fome other ifiands, deeper j 

 but the fpecimens found at Tongo Taboo, have the top of the 

 head of an exceeding deep and vivid purple, and this furrounded 



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Varieties. 



