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The Hawk- Headed Parrot. 
T H I S Bird is about the Bignefs of a fmall Pigeon, and is re- 
markable for having a longer Tail (in Proportion) than is com- 
mon to thofe Parrots whofe Tail-Feathers are of an equal Length. 
The Bill is of a dark or dusky Colour, pretty much hooked, and 
hath pretty fharp Angles on the Sides of the upper Mandible ; the 
Noftrils are placed pretty near together in a Skin that covers the Bafe 
of the upper Part of the Bill ; the Eyes have their Irides of a Hazel- 
Colour, and have round each of them a bare Skin of a dusky, or 
black Colour. The Head is wholly covered with brown Feathers, 
like what we fee in fome Hawks; the middle Part of the Feathers 
being Light, and the Borders Dark, which makes a pleafing Variety. 
The Neck all round, the Bread and Belly, are cover’d with finereddifh 
Purple-Feathers, tipped or fringed with a bright Blue, which produces 
a pleafing Variety of Red and Blue in tranfverfe broken Lines. The 
Back, Rump, and upper Side of the Wings are of a pleafant Green ; 
the Tips of the greater Quills of the Wings are of a dark-blue Colour ; 
the upper Side of the Tail is Green, except the Side-Feathers, which 
are dark Blue at their Tips. The Coverts within Side of the Wings 
are of a yellowifh Green, as are the Sides of the Body under the 
Wings ; the Infides of the Quills of the Wings, and the under Side of 
the Tail, are of a blueifh Black. The Thighs and Covert-Feathers 
beneath the Tail are of a lightifh Green; the Legs, Feet and Claws 
are made as in other Parrots, all of a Black or dark Lead-Colour. 
When he is provoked he raifes the gay Feathers on his Neck, fo as to 
form a Kind of Ruff or Creft. 
This Bird was the Property of the Right Honourable Lord Duncannon y 
who gave me Liberty to make a Draught of it at his Houfe in Cavendijh- 
Square . I was informed that the Bird was brought from the Eaft-Indies. 
Our Countryman, Mr. Willughby , has in his Ornithology, extracted from 
Clujius , the Defcription of a Parrot, which I think can be no other 
than the above defcribed, Vide P. 119. Line the 4th, of the Work in 
Englifh . I know not of any Figure ot this Bud, fo that I hope a 
Draught and Defcription immediately from Life will not be difagree- 
able to the curious Naturalifl. Clujius s Defcription in Willughby is very 
brief, and feems to have been taken only from a Picture. 
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