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The White-Ereafted Parrot. 
np HIS Bird feemed to me about the Bignefs of a Turtle-Dove, 
j| 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 eafily 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 upper Part pretty near to each other, all of a dusky Flefh- 
Colour, being lighted 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. Frbm the Cor¬ 
ners of the Mouth proceed two longifh 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. The 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 Bread, 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 Afh-Colour ; the Claws are Blackifh. 
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 afi'ur’d me it was brought from the Carraccos , on the Continent of 
America , a Part of the Spa?tifJj 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-defcribed. 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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