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the Rump yellow. The Tail is red in the middle \ the fides being variegated with 

 red, yellow, and blue. Almoft all the feathers have their utmoft tips black, but 

 elfe are green : The Legs and Feet cinereous. This Bird from the great variety of 

 its colours might well be called the particoloured or many-coloured [ T?oixihQ* 1 

 Parrot , it being of no lefs than (even feveral colours, of which yet the chief is 

 green. 



Mr. Willnghby doth thus briefly defcribe either this fame Parrot, or one very like it. 

 It is of a green colour, lefTer than a Pigeon : The Irides of the Eyes of a Hazel co- 

 lour. The Bill is white : From the Bill to the middle of the crown it is alio white. 

 Under the Eyes and the under Chap it is of a Vermilion colour. The middle of the 

 Breaft and Belly between the Legs is reddiQi. The outer webs of the Tail-feathers 

 to the (haft are of a flame-colour. Towards the crown of the Head the edges of all 

 the feathers are dark or blackifh. The outmoft flag-feathers are bluifh. Theexteriour 

 border of the Tail-end is bluifh. A dark fpot covers the Ears. The lower part of the 

 Belly is of a y ellowilh green. 



<h VI. 



* The red and blue Parrot of Aldrovandus. 



THis bird is nine inches long, fufficiently corpulent. The Bill not fo great as in the 

 precedent, blackifh: The Head, Neck, and Breaft are blue: The top of the 

 crown remarkable for a yellow fpot. The region of the Eyes white 5 the Pupil black 5 

 the lm dusky. The fides of the Belly under the tips of the Wings yellow : The Bel- 

 ly green. The Thighs white, with a fhadow of green. The Rump yellow. The 

 top of the back of a pale blue. The covert feathers of the Wings particoloured of 

 green, yellow, and rofie. The end of the back or region of the loins yellowiifi. 

 The Legs and Feet are afh-coloured, the reft of the body is of a rofe-colour or 

 bluifh. 



§. VII. 



Aldrovandus his ajlj-coloured or blnijlj Parrot. 



THis according to Aldrovandus is ten inches long : Of the bignefs of a tame Pigeon, 

 or the common green Parrot. The Bill is black : The Nofthrils near to one 

 another, in the upper part of the Bill next to the Head 5 which part is covered with 

 a naked white skin [ we afterwards obferved the fame figure and fituation of the 

 Nofthrils in all other Parrots. ~] The whole body is of armniforra colour, viz,.z dark 

 cinereous : Yet the lower part of the Back and Belly and the Rump are paler than the 

 reft of the body, and almoft white. The Tail is red of a Vermilion colour, very 

 fhort, and fcarce reaching further than the ends of the Wings. The region of the 

 Eyes [ fides of the head round the Eyes ] is white and bare of feathers. The feathers 

 of the Head and Neck are fhorter than the others. They fay that all of this kind are 

 brought from Mina, an Indian City of St. Georges. We have feen many of them at 

 London. 



§. VIII. 



* The red and white Parrot of Aldrovandus. 



IT is equal to an indifferent great Capon, feventeen inches long. The Head and 

 Neck thick. The whole body white, but moderately fhaded with dusky, fo 

 that it feems to be afh-coloured. Its Bill is black, the hooked part being longer than 

 in others. The hinder part of the Back, the Rump, the whole Tail, and prime fea- 

 thers of the Wings are of a Scarlet colour [ Miniaceo colore."] The Feet, as in others, 

 blackifh. In bignefs of body it gives not place to that greateft fort which are lefs vo- 

 cal, called Maccavps ; In this only it is inferiour to them, that it hath a fhorter Tail : 

 For which caufe, notwithstanding its magnitude, we have placed it in this Clajfisot 

 rank. 



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