A V O Y A G E TO 
Pennant IAN Parro t,. 
Order and Genus the fame. 
Species, 1 34. 
Size of' the fcarlet lory, length fixteen inches: the 
hill of a hlueiHi horn colour : the general colour of the 
plumage fcarlet; the bafe of the under mandible and 
the chin covered with rich blue feathers : the back 
black, the feathers edged with crimfon : wings blue, 
down the middle much paler than the reil : the quills 
and tail black, the feathers edged outwardly with blue, 
and three of the outer tail feathers, from the middle to 
the end, of a pale hoary blue : the tail is wedge Hiaped, 
the middle feathers eight inches in length ; the outer- 
moft, or Ihorteft, only four : the bottom of the thighs 
blue, legs dull^y, claws black» 
This beautiful bird is not unfrequent about Port 
Jack/on, and feems to correfpond greatly with the Pen- 
naniian Parrot, defcribed by Mr. Latham in the fupple- 
ment to his General Synopfis of Birds, p. 6 1 . differing in 
fo few particulars, as to make us fuppofe it to differ only 
in fex from that fpecies. 
CHAP, 
XV. 
4 
Pacific 
