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The Dufay Parrot. 
T HIS Bird is about the Bignefs of the common blue Pigeon, 
bred in our Dove-houfes. It is remarkable for being of a 
very bad Colour for the Parrot-Kind, who are a Tribe of Birds well 
known to be of a very gay Plumage. 
The Bill is formed like thofe of other Parrots, Black in the Middle 
of the upper Mandible ; the Skin that contains in it the Noftrils, is 
alfo Black or Dusky ; the Bafe of the Bill is Yellow ; the Remainder 
to the Point, of a fine Red ; the Eyes are of a dark Hazel-Colour, 
encompaffed with bare Spaces of Skin of a whitifh Afh-Colour ; the 
Top of the Head is Dusky or Black ; the Sides of the Head under the 
Eyes, and the Hinder-part of the Neck are Greenifh ; the Back is of a 
dark, dusky Colour ; the Rump again Greenifh ; the Tail is Green on 
its upper Side ; the outer Webs of the two outermoft Feathers are 
Blue ; the under Side of the Tail is of a dusky Green ; the Covert- 
Feathers beneath the Tail are of a fine Red. The Throat (for an Inch 
or more beneath the Bill) is of a fine Blue ; the Bread, Belly and 
Thighs, are of a dusky- brownifh Afh-Colour ; the Wings are Green; 
the innermoft Quills next the Back have yellow Borders ; the Legs and 
Feet (made as in moft other Parrots) are cover’d with a fcaly Skin of 
a Lead -Colour ; the Claws are pretty ftrong and Black. Where the 
Colours change in this Bird it is not fuddenly, but each Colour mixes 
gradually, and lofes itfelf in its Neighbour-Colour, except the Spot of 
Red under the Tail, which is pretty diftind. 
This Bird was the Property of my much refpeded and curious Friend, 
Mr. Peter Colinfat , F. R. S. who kept it alive fame Years, and in- 
vited me to take a Draught of it. He informed me that it was brought 
from New Spain> on the Continent of America . Though it be not 
fo beautiful as many others, yet I take it to be very rare, it being the 
only one of this- Species I have chanced to fee, notwithftanding my 
diligent Search after curious and unknown Animals. As I can find no- 
thing like a Defcription of it, I believe I may fafely pronounce it a 
Non-defcript. 
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