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Tife fecond Black-capped Lory* 
HIS Bird is about the Bignefs of the blue Pigeons commonly 
jL bred in our Dove-Houfes: It is a very brisk and nimble Bird 
for the Parrot-Kind, and will hop along on a Cane or Stick, letting 
go its Hold with both Feet, and lighting again at a Foot Diftance on 
the Stick, which is an Action I have obferved in no Parrots but thole 
oi the Lory-Kind. 
The Bill is of an Orange-Colour, hooked at the Point; the Edges 
of the upper Mandible are waved, but not fuddenly enough to form 
Angles; theNoftrils are placed pretty near each other, in a dusky Skin 
at the Bafe of the upper Part of the Bill; the Tongue is foft, round, 
fmooth, and of a blackifh Colour; the Eyes have reddifh-yellow 
Irides, and are encompaffed with a dusky^colour’d Skin, bare of Fea- 
th ers. The whole Crown of the Head is cover’d with Feathers of a 
black Colour, with a Purple Glofs; the Remainder of the Head, 
the Neck, Back, Rump, and whole under Side, are all of a very 
beautiful Red, or Scarlet-Colour, except a Crefcent of Yellow on the 
Bread:, and fome blue Feathers on the Thighs, juft above the Knees. 
The Wings on their upper Sides are Green; the greater Quills darkeft ; 
the other Quills, and the firft Row of Covert-Feathers next above the 
Quills, have fomething of Yellow on their Edges; the Ridge of the 
Wing about the Joint is of a Ene Blue; the inner Covert-Feathers of 
the Wings are Blue, but become Dusky or Black where they fall on 
the Infides of the Quills; the inner Webs of all the Quills are of a 
fine Yellow, except at their Tips, which are Dusky; the Tail-Fea¬ 
thers are Red both above and beneath, but a little inclining to Purple 
at their Tips; the Coverts of the Tail, both above and beneath, are alfo 
Red ; the Legs and Feet are of a dark AIL, or Lead-Colour, formed 
as in other Parrots, having the Toes, two backwards and two forwards, 
on each Foot; it hath firong blackifh Claws. 
This Bird was the Property of my good Patron Sir Hans Sloane , Bart, at whofe Houfe I 
made an Original Draught of it. This, and all the other Sorts % of the Scarlet-Parrots, call’d 
- Lories , are brought from the Eo.fi- Indies . I cannot difcover that the above-delcribed Species 
hath yet been mention’d or figur’d by any Natural Hiftorian, I take thi$ to be what Albin\ 
fhould have been, had his Figure been from Nature. He has made a yellow Ring all round 
the Neck, which fhould have been only on the Bread". See Albin' s Hifiory of Birds, Vol. I. P. 13V 
I have feen a greater Number of this Species than of the laft defcribed, or of any other of the 
Lories, all agreeing very exactly with the above Deli, rip tion, 2 r bs 
