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The Little Green Parrot. 
HIS Bird is about the Size of a fmall Pigeon. In order to enable any one 
JL to magnify it to its natural Size, the Knowledge of the Length of .any par¬ 
ticular Part will be fufficient. The Wing when clofed is fix Inches long, fo that 
the Meafures in the Original Draught are, to thofe of the Print, as fix to four and a 
Quarter. 
The Bill is of a light Afh-Colour, almofi: White at its Bafe, and darkefc at the 
Point, where it is alfo hooked. It hath Angles on the Edges of the upper Mandi¬ 
ble ; the Noftrils are placed pretty near each other, in a whitifh Skin at the Bafe of 
the upper Mandible; the Eyes have their Circles of a dark Hazel-Colour; the 
Pupils are Black; round each Eye is a fmall Space of bare Skin, of a light Adi- 
Colour. The whole Head, Neck and Body, both above and beneath, are of a 
green Colour, though lighter, and more inclining to Yellow on the Throat, 
Bread:, Belly, Thighs, and Coverts beneath the Tail; the greater Quills of the 
Wings are of a dulky or black Colour, their outer Webs being Blue almofi to 
their Tips ; the Remainder of the Qujlls next the Back are Green; -amongd the 
firfl Row of Covert-Feathers, there is one red Feather, which falls over the Bot¬ 
toms of the blue Quills; all the Remainder of the Covert-Feathers of theWings, both 
above and beneath, are Green. The Middle-Feathers of the Tail are a little longer 
than thofe on the Sides, but not fo as to make it one of the long "or pointed¬ 
tailed Parrots j the upper Side of the.Tail is Green, except the outer Webs of thd 
two outermofl Feathers, which are Blueifh ; the inner Webs of the Tail-Feathers 
are Red, till within lefs than an Inch of their Tips, which are wholly Green ; the 
outer Webs of the two outer Feathers, that are Blue above, are of a light Green be¬ 
neath ; the Legs and Feet agree in Shape, and Situation of the Toes, with other 
Parrots, and are cover’d with a rough fcaly Skin of an Afh-Colour. It has pretty 
ftrong Claws of a dufky Colour. 
I cannot be certain from what Part of the World this Bird was brought, it being 
bought out of a Dealer’s Hands, who could not inform me ; though I take it to be 
from the Weft-Indies , from whence mod: of the Green Parrots we have in London 
are brought. It was my Property; I kept it alive fome Years; it was a brifk, 
lively, nimble Bird, and talkative in a Language unknown to me. I have obferved 
that Parrots have more or lefs Brifknefs and Agility in Proportion to their Size* 
the greater Kind being very clumfy and dow in their Motions, and the Lefier more 
and more nimble, as they decreafe in Bignefs. I don’t know that this is any where 
•defended. 
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