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The W hite-Breafted Parrot. 
T HIS Bird feerned to me about the Bignefi of a Turtle-Dove, 
or of thofe fmall white Doves we breed in Cages. I made a 
Drawing of it, which feemed to be very near the Size of Life ; and mea- 
furing the clofed Wing of the Draught I found it to be five Inches, by 
which the Size of the Original may be eafiiy attained from the Print. 
The Bill is hooked, hath Angles on its Edges, and a narrow Skin 
at the Bafe of the upper Mandible, wherein the Noftrils are placed in 
the tipper Part pretty near to each other, all of a dusky Fiefh- 
Colour, being lighteft at the Bafe, and growing gradually darker to- 
wards the Point. The Circles round the Eyes are of a dark Hazel- 
Colour ; the Eyes are placed in Spaces of Flefh-colour’d bare Skin, that 
furrounds them, of fome little Breadth; the whole Crown of the 
Head above the Eyes is cover’d with black Feathers. From the Cor- 
ners of the Mouth proceed two longilh Spots of Green, which pafs 
beneath the bare Skin that furrounds the Eyes ; the Throat and Sides 
of the Head are Yellow ; the Hinder-part of the Neck gradually be- 
comes of an Orange- Colour. All the Back, Rump and Tail, both 
above and beneath, are of a pleafant green Colour. T he greater Quills 
of the Wings have their outer Webs Blue; the Middle ones have their 
outer Edges Yellowifh; the Remainder of the Quills next the Back are 
wholly Green, as are all the Covert-Feathers of the Wings above them. 
The Breaft, from the Neck, as far as the Legs, is cover’d with white 
Feathers ; the Sides under the Wings, the Thighs, lower Belly, and 
Covert-Feathers under the Tail, are of a yellow, or Orange-Colour ; 
the Legs and Feet are made as in other Parrots, and cover’d with 
rough Scales of a dusky Aflh-Colour ; the Claws are Blackifih. 
I found this Bird in the Hands of a Dealer in Foreign Birds, who 
kept a Publick Houfe in White-Hart Yard, near the Strand , London. 
He aflur’d me it was brought, from the Carraccos , on the Continent of 
America , a Part of the Spaniflj Dominions. I have examined all the 
Accounts I can find relating to Parrots in different Authors, but can 
find none that agree with the above-delcribed. It is a very beautiful 
little Parrot, and being in all Probability a Non-defcript, I hope it 
will be thought worth Publication. 
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