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§. IX. 



* Marggravius his middle-fized Parrots. 



THe firft Species called AjURUCURAuisa very elegant bird. Above the Bill 

 on the head it hath a tuft or cop of a lovely blue. The throat, fides, and up- 

 per part of the Head arc cloathed with feathers of a delicate yellow : The whole 

 body of pleafant green. Inbrief^ it is elegantly variegated. The Tail is green, but 

 when it fpreads it appears edged or fringed with black,red, and blue. The Legs and 

 Feet of an ath-coloour : The Bill more dusky : The Eyes black, with a golden circle 

 about the Pupil. The Tongue of all is broad and thick. 



The fecond Species is like to the former, a little differing in the variegation of the 

 coloursj viz. On the top of the Head it hath a yellow cop, wherewith white is ming- 

 led. Above the Eyes, and under the Throat it is of a clear or bright yellow. About 

 the upper Bill is a Sea-green fpot. 



The third Species called Ajurucuruc a hath a tuft on its Head of a colour 

 mingled of blue and a little black -, and in the middle of the tuft a yellow fpot. Be- 

 low the Eyes is a yellow, and on the Throat a blue fpot. The Breaft is green, as are 

 alfo the Wings and Back, butfbmewhat deeper or darker, the ends of the Wings and 

 the Tail again being more dilute: the tips of the Wing- feathers are yellow and red, 

 mingled with blue. The Tail underneath is particoloured of green and yellow, above 

 of a pale green. The Legs of a bluifh afh-colour. The Bill above cinereous, in the 

 extremities black. The Claws black. 



PARAGUAisa black Parrot of the bignefs of Ajurucariu : The Breaft, Back, and 

 anteriour half of the belly remarkably red : The Eyes black,encompafled with a red 

 circle or Irts : The Bill dusky, or of a dark alh-colour. 



The Ta r A b e of the Brazilians is a green Parrot bigger than aParagua^with a red 

 Head and Breaft, of which colour is alfo the beginning of the Wings. The Beak and 

 Feet are of a dark afh-colour. 



Ajurucatinga of the Brazilians is a Parrot of the bignefs of a handfbm Pul- 

 let : All green, with red Eyes, and the skin about the Eyes white : The Bill and Legs 

 white. It hath a long green Tail. This in colour and length of the tail agrees with tie 

 Parakeet, but differs jr om it in bignefs. 



Ajurupara agrees in all refpe&s with the precedent, only it is lefs. 



Chap. IV. 



Of the lejferfort of Tdrrots jailed Parrakeecs* 

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* The Ring-Par rakeet or Pfittacus of the Ancients,A\dvov. 



THis was the firft of all the Parrots brought out of India into Europe 5 and the 

 only one known to the Ancients for a long time, to wit, from the time of 

 Alexander the Great to the Age of Nero, by whofe fearehers ( as Pliny wit- 

 nefTeth) Parrots were difcovered elfewhere, viz. mGagaude an Ifland of JEthiopia. 

 It is fourteen inches long 5 hatha thick Bill, all over red: A yellow Iris or circle en- 

 compaflesthe Pupil of the Eye, which is, asinmoft birds, black. The head and all 

 the body befides is greeny but the neck, breaft, and whole underfide more dilute 

 or pale: the upper fide deeper-coloured. From the lower Chap of the Bill under the 

 Chin a black line is drawn downward as far as the beginning of the Breaft, which then 

 divides, and goes away to each fide of the neck, till it meet with that red circle or 

 ring, which compafleth the backfide of the Neck. This ring is behind of the breadth 

 of ones little finger, but grows narrower by degrees towards the fides. The belly is 

 of fb faint a green, thatitfeems almoft to be yellow. The outmoft feathers of the 

 Wingsnextthe belly are of a dark dusky green about the middle, in the upper part 

 diftinguifhed with a red mark. The Tail, which is about two Palms long, is alfo of 

 a yellowifh green : The Legs and Feet aftVcoloured. Whence Solinus doth not 



Q.2 rightly 



