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as alfo the Tail, which is but ftiort : In the lower part on each fide it is marked with 

 a long, red fpot, but above it is yellow. The Legs and Feet are alb-coloured : The 

 Claws black, and not much hooked. 



This kind is the mod common of all with us. Inthofe Idefcribed 4t London there w^s 

 a white circle about the Eyes: and the npper Chap of the Bill had en each ftde a tooth-like 

 procefs or Appendix, to which anjwered a dent omic\ in the lower. 



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* Aldrovandus his Parrot with a particoloured Bit?. 



Filom the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail it was eighteen inches long. The 

 upper Chap in the upper part was of a bluifti green, of a yellow Oker colour 

 in the fides, the tip crofted with a white fpot : The lower Chap of the Bill of a lead- 

 colour round about, and yellow in the middle, the crown of the Head adorned with 

 yellow or golden feathers. The reft of the body was for the moft part green, the 

 Back darker, the Belly and Breaft lighter, with a glofs of yellow, the roots or bot- 

 toms of the feathers being every where cinereous. The flag-feathers on their outer 

 webs toward the belly were firft green, then by little and little growing blue, termi- 

 nate in a purpliih colour, being elfewhere black. The fecond row of Wing- feathers 

 were wholly yellow. Thofe which grew about the middle of the Wings, at their 

 beginning, dn the outer web, which refpedrs the belly, were firft green, then of a 

 dark red, then green again, and laftly at their tips partly of a violet colour, partly 

 black, with fo great variety. The Tail is compofed of twelve feathers, of which 

 four on each fide at their rife or beginning are firft green on the exteriour web,yellow 

 on theinterioUr, then of a red or Scarlet colour, thirdly green again, and laftly yel- 

 low. The four remaining middle feathers are wholly or all over green, only at their 

 very ends (hew fomething of yellow. The Feet are of a lead-colour, having four 

 toes, two ftanding forward, and two backwards, as in Woodpeckers •-> the interiotfe 

 being much (horter than the exteriour. The Claws crooked as in Rapacious birds. 

 The Legs not above an inch long, but pretty thick. 



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* The blackbird green Parrot of AldroVandus. 



THis is thirteen inches long^ hath a great, thick Bill, like the reft, but wholly- 

 black. At the beginning of the Bill, on the Crown, and under the Throat it 

 is of a blue colour, tending to green. The Irk of the Eye is of a dark Saffron, the 

 Pupil black : The reft of the Head and the Breaft yellow : The Belly of a middle co- 

 lour between yellow and green 5 as alfo the upper fide of the Tail. The Neck and all 

 the Back with the Wings are of a deep green: So that it would be almoft wholly 

 green, but that the very extreme ridge of the Wing* where it is joyned to the body, 

 is of a Scarlet red 5 and then follows a black feather in the outfide or extremity of the 

 Wings which refpeft the belly^ and laftly the tips of the flag-feathers are red. Befides 

 thefe alfo the lower part of the Rump is tinttured with a Scarlet red. The Feet are 

 dusky: The Talons black* and fbmewhat crooked. The Tail is about a Palm long 

 moreorlefs. 



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* The white-headed Parrot of AldroVandus. 



IT is ten inches long : The Bill white, and two inches thick : That part of the Head" 

 next to the Bill is alfo white : The Pupil of the Eye black, the Irk ferrugineous. 

 The forehead and crown of the head are white, variegated with black fpots. The 

 hinder part of the Head, Neck, Back, Wings, and Rump above are tin&ured with a 

 dark green: The Throat and upperraoft ridge of the Wings with a Vermilion red; 

 The Breaft and Thighs again are green. The part of the Belly lying between the 

 Thighs and the Breaft is of a dusky colour obfeurely red, or of that the Painters call 

 Vmber [ terr£ Vmbri<e. ] Some of the covert-feathers of the Wings, vi%. the out- 

 moft a are blue, but with forne mixture of white. The lower part of the belly next 



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