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The Lory-Parrakeet. 
T H E Figure reprefents this Bird of its natural Size. Though it be Green in the 
Body, contrary to the other Lories, the Colour of whofe Bodies are princi- 
pally Red, yet it agrees with the firfl: two Sorts, in having a blackifh-biue Cap, and 
with all the four la If defcribcd in the Shape and Colour of the Bill, Feet, and bare 
Skin round the Eyes, and in having the Throat and Bread: Red. In Beauty of 
Colouring and elegant Difpofition of its Varieties of Colours, it gives Place to none. 
The Bill is of a bright Orange-Colour, pretty much hooked, and waved on the 
Edges of the upper Mandible 5 the Noftrils are placed in a dufky Skin, on the upper 
Part of the Bafe of the Bill ; the Irides of the Eyes are of a reddilh Orange- Colour, 
encompaffed with Spaces of bare Skin of an Afh-Colour ; the Crown of the Head 
is cover’d with dark Feathers, with a fine blue Glofs ; immediately behind thefe 
Feathers follows a Crefcent of Scarlet-Feathers, the Horns of which point towards the 
Eyes. The Ears are cover’d with Plats of dark-blue Feathers, behind which the 
Feathers are Yellow. The Sides of the Head below the Eyes, and the Throat and 
Bread:, are cover’d with fine Red, or Scarlet-Feathers ; thofe of the Bread have their 
Tips fringed with blackifh Green. The Hinder-part of the Neck, the Back, Wings, 
and whole under Side of the Body are Green, except fome little Mixture of Yellow, 
vtz. a longifh yellow Spot on each Side, which parts the Red on the Bread - , from 
the Green on the Sides. The Middle of the Back, and the Sides of the Belly, have 
their Feathers tipped with Yellow, which appears in diftindfc Spots ; the Wings have 
fome of the Quills, next the Back, edged with Yellow ; the Feathers of the Baftard- 
Wing are alfo edged with Yellow; the Reft of the Wing is wholly Green ; the upper 
Side of the Tail, and its Coverts, are Green ; the Feathers are long in the Middle, and 
fhortening gradually towards the Sides. The Tail-Feathers, on their under Sides, 
are Red at their Bottoms, and yellowifh-Green at their Tips ; the Coverts beneath 
the Tail are of a light-yellowidi Green ; the Legs, Feet and Claws, are of a dark Afh- 
Colour; the Toes are difpofed, two forwards and two backwards, as in all other 
Parrots. 
This Bird was the Property of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Wager , for whofe 
Lady I made a Draught of it, and, by her Permifiion, made another for myfelf. My 
Lady told me it was brought from the Eajl-lndies , , which I believed before I enquired, 
it agreeing in fo many Particulars with the Red Indian Lories . This Draught was 
from the living Bird. I have fince feen another of this Species, preferved dead, which 
differed from this in having a great Mixture of Yellow in the green Part of the Bird, 
fo that it was hard to fay whether the Green or Yellow mod prevail’d. I can find no 
Defcription of it, fo that it appears to me an undoubted Non-defcript. 
The Fly engraved on this Plate has the Head and Body of a dull Green ; the 
Wings are of a dirty-purpliih Brown, with fome tranfparent Spots in them. I drew 
it from Nature, but forgot to note from whence it was brought ; but I think it was 
from the Weft-Indies . 
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