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long, and about the fides of the head and top of it is a 
mixture of fine yellow ; but none of the feathers are marked 
with bufF at the tips, nor is the under part of the body 
crofled with buff-colour. In the tail it differs fcarcely at 
all from Mr. Latham ^ figure. 
Thefe birds have been met with in feveral parts of New 
Holla7id. 
We likewife faw feveral Blue-bellied Parrots. This is a 
very beautiful bird ; and Mr. Latham^ whofe leave we have 
to copy the account of it, from his Syn. vol. i. p. 213, 
N° 14. B. defcribes it thus : The length is fifteen inches ; 
" the bill is reddifh ; orbits black ; head and throat dark 
" blue, with a mixture of lighter blue feathers ; back part 
of the head green; towards the throat yellow green; 
back and wings green ; prime quills dufky, barred with 
" yellow ; breafi: red, mixed with yellow ; belly of a fine 
blue ; thighs green and yellow ; tail cuneiform ; the two 
middle feathers green ; the others the fame, but bright 
^'•yellow on the outer edges ; legs dufky." 
This bird is a very common fpecies in various parts of 
New Holland^ and in great plenty both at Botany Bay and 
Port Jack/on. It is found to differ much in plumage, 
feveral 
