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’The fmaUeJt GR^'Ei^and Indian Paroquet. 
I N this Plate, which was wrought from Nature, and not from a Draw- 
ing, the Bird is reprefented of its proper Size. It is lefs than the 
fmall red-headed Paroquet^ commonly brought into Englandt which is 
pretty well figur’d and delcrib’d by Alhin in his Hiftory of Birds, Vol. 3. 
Page 15. tho’ his Drawing is fomething too fmall, feeing the Bird is a 
little bigger than what I have here reprefented, which is the leaft of the 
Parrot-Vmd. lever met with; the Bill is ftiaped like thofe in the greater 
Sort of P avTOts-^ of a bright Orange-colour. I could perceive no Skin 
covering the Bafis 01 the Bill ; the Noftrils were near together in the 
upper Part of the Bill, very near the B’eathers of the Forehead ; the 
Eyes are furrounded with a narrow Space of Skin, of a light Flefh- 
colour ; the Top of the Head is Red, or of the Colour of a Sevil 
Orange, which in the hinder Part of the Head gradually becomes Green, 
uniting itfelf with the Colour of the Back; the under Side of the Bird, 
middle of the Back, Wings, and Tail, are of a fine Green-colour, light- 
er on the Throat, Breaft, Belly, and Thighs, and darker on the Back 
Coverts of the Wing and Tail, darkeft of all in the greater Wing-feathers; 
the lower Half of the Back and Rump, quite to the Tail, is covered 
with the fame bright Red or Orange-colour with the Head, being inter- 
mixed with the Green, and lofing itfelf in the middle of the Back. ; 
the Legs, Feet, and Claws, are of a Flefh-colour, the Toes ftanding as 
in other Parfots ; the infide of the Quills, and the under- fide of the Fail 
are Blue a very little inclining to Green. 
This Bird was brought from Holland, in Spirits, by Dr. Cromwell 
Mortimer, Secretary to the Royal Society, who bought it therewith other 
Things brought, from fome Dutch Settlement in the Pajl Indies : He was 
pleafed to lend it me, that I might draw it. This Bird was put in 
camphorated Spirits, and appeared of a brown Colour whilft in the 
Spirits, tho’ the Glafs was white Flint, and the Spirits clear ; and when, 
taken out, wafhed and dried, it bsicame of the Colours above defcribed., 
I believe no Author hath yet taken notice of this Bird. 
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