ERASILIAN GREEN MAGCAV/. 
spot on each side of the lower mandible of 
the bill, which ends in points upwards. All 
the neck and body, both above and beneaih, 
is ?reen. The wino-s without-side are also 
green ; except the greater quills, and some of 
the first row of covert-feathers tliat fall over 
them, which are of a nne blue. The qaill- 
feathers next the back are of a vellow green. 
The ridge of the wing, in the upper part round 
the joint, is red. The insides of the wings are 
red; except a little sprinkling of faint green in 
the lesser covert-feathers. The tail-feathers, 
on the upper side, have their webs green to- 
wards their bottoms, which gradually become 
blue at their tips : the outer webs of the two 
outer feathers are blue their whole lens^th. 
There is a little redness next the shafts in all 
the feathers. The under side of the tail is 
wholly red. It is composed of twelve feathers, 
narrow at their ends: the middle feathers arc 
long ; gradually shortening to the outermost on 
each side, which are tire shortest. The legs 
and feet are covered with a black scalv skin. 
The toes stand two forv/ards, and two back- 
wards, as in others of the Parrot kind, of 
which this is a species. The claws are black 
