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The Lejfer Green Parrot. 
T H I S is a little fmaller than any of the foregoing: It is of 
the Size of a middling Pigeon. For Diftin6tion-fake it may 
be call’d the Green Parrot , with a red, blue, and yellow Head* 
it being remarkably beautiful on the Head. 
The Bill is of a whitifh Colour ; the Point and Side about its 
Edges Dusky ; the upper Mandible hath a Wave or Angle on each 
Side of its Edges ; it hath a white Skin at the Bafe of the Bill in the 
upper Part, wherein the Noftrils are placed. The Circles round the 
Eyes are of a bright Gold-Colour ; the Eyes have a narrow Space of 
bare white Skin running all round them ; the Forehead (as far as the 
Eyes) is covered with Scarlet-Feathers; the Hinder-part of the Crown 
of the Plead is cover’d with blue Feathers. From the Bafe of the 
lower Mandible of the Bill, on each Side of the Head, is a roundifh 
Orange-colour’d Spot extending beneath each Eye ; the Remainder 
cf the Head, the Throat, and Neck are Green ; the Hinder-part of the 
Neck, the Back, Rump, and upper Side of the Tail are of a dark 
Green ; the Fore-part of the Neck, the Breaft, Belly and Thighs, are 
of a lighter Green ; the lower Belly and Covert-Feathers under the 
Tail, are of a very light Green, inclining to Yellow. The greater 
Quills of the Wings are Dusky, with a little Blue on the Edges of the 
outer Webs of the Feathers; thole next them are Blue at their Tips, 
and Red towards their Bottoms on their outer W^ebs ; the inner Quills 
that fall on the Rump are Green ; all the Covert-Feathers of the Wings 
are Green, except what is called the Baftard-Wing, that covers the 
Prime-Quills, which are Blue ; the Ridge of the Wing that falls on the 
Breaft is Yellow ; the Legs are fhort, the Toes ftand two forwards and 
two backwards on each Foot, and are all cover’d with a rough fcaly 
Skin, of a Lead cr Afh-Colour ; the Claws are Dusky. 
This Bird was the Property of the Lady of Sir Charles Wager , wha 
obliged me with a Sight of it at Sir Charles s Houfe in the Admiralty - 
Office. My Lady told me it was brought from the Wejl-lndies y but 
fhe could not tell from what particular Part. I have compared the 
Original Draught with all the Defcriptions of Parrots I can meet with, 
but can find no Defcription that agrees with it, fo that I believe it to 
be a Bird not hitherto defcribed. "The 
