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feathers of the wings and tail are blue 

 and red. 



Parrots, properly fo called, are very 

 numerous, and of different fpecies, in 

 Guiana, but none of them are deftitute 

 of green feathers, like the afh-coloured 

 bluifh Parrot of Guinea, the White- 

 crefted Parrot, and fome others. They 

 fly in large flocks, confiding of many 

 hundreds, and many of them are killed 

 by the Indians, who are fond of their 

 flefh. Their natural language is a hoarfe 

 difagreeable fhrieking noife ; and in this 

 country it is almoft impoflible to teach 

 a Parrot to imitate the language of the 

 human fpecies, or forget their own, 

 whilft they every day hear it from the 

 flocks of wild Parrots. Thefe birds are 

 here diftinguifhed by the name of Par- 

 rots properly fo called, and thofe which 

 are termed Creatures : the latter refem- 

 ble the former in every particular, ex- 

 cept 



