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The fmallefk Green and Red Indian Paroquet. 
T 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 England , which is pretty well figur’d and 
and defcrib’d by Albin 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 repre¬ 
fented, which is the leaft of the Parrot -kind I ever met with; the Bill is fhaped like 
thofe in the greater Sort of Parrots , of a bright Orange-colour. I could perceive no 
Skin covering the Bafis of the Bill; the Noftrils were near together in the upper Part 
of the Bill, very near the Feathers 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, mid¬ 
dle of the Back, Wings, and Tail, are of a fine Green-colour, lighter on the Throat, 
Bread:, 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 intermixed 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 
Parrots ; the infide of the Quills, and the under-fide of the Tail are Blue a very 
little inclining to Green. 
This Bird was brought from Holland , in Spirits, by Dr. Cromwell Mortimer , Secre¬ 
tary to the Royal Society , who bought it there with other Things brought from fome 
Dutch Settlement in the Eajl 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 became of the Colours above defcribed. I 
believe no Author hath yet taken notice of this Bird. 
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