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The Scarlet Lory. 
T HIS Bird is of the Bignefs of the lad; defcribed, or equal to a fmall Pigeon,’ 
and differs principally from the two foregoing Lories 3 in having the Crown of 
the Head Red, where it is Black in them. 
The Bill is of an Orange-Colour ; the upper Chap hangs over the Nether, and is 
pointed as in the reft of this Genus: The Edges of the upper Mandible have a 
Wave or Bend on them, which is beft expreffed by the Figure. The Noftrils are 
placed near each other in an Afh-coloured Skin, that covers the middle Part of the 
Safe of the upper Mandible of the Bill. The Irides of the Eyes are of a fine 
Orange-Colour, lighter round the Pupils, and darker in the outer Circumference j 
the Eyes are placed in Spaces covered with a bare Afh-colour’d Skin. The Head, 
Neck, whole Body, both above and beneath, and the upper and under Coverts of 
the Tail, are of a very fine Red, or Scarlet-Colour, except the Feathers at the lower 
Part of the Neck behind, (or the Beginning of the Back) which are tipped with 
Yellow, and form a broken yellow Spot. The lower Part of the Thighs juft above 
the Knees is Green ; the upper Red, like the reft of the Body. The greater Quills 
of the Wings are of a dark Green, inclining to Blue ; the Remainder that fall over 
them of a lighter Green. The firft Row of Coverts are of a yellow Green; the 
lefter Covert-Feathers of a fuller Green ; the fmaller Feathers in the upper Part of 
the Wing, about the Joint, are Yellow ; the Ridge of the Wing, a little below the 
Joint, is Blue ; the ten Prime, or firft Quills, have their inner Webs Red, almoft to 
their Tips, which are Dufky or Blackifh ; the Covert-Feathers within Side of the 
Wings are Dufky, and fringed with Yellow. The upper Side of the Tail is of a fine 
Blue, the Middle-Feathers being tinctured a little with Green ; the inner Webs of the 
Tail-Feathers are Red at their Bottoms, and Yellowifh at their Tips, fo that the 
under Side of the Tail appears of a yellowifh Colour. The Legs and Feet are co¬ 
vered with a fcaly Skin of a blueifh-black Colour. 
This Bird was the Property of the firft Lady of the Right Honourable Sir 
Robert Walpole , (afterwards created Earl of Orford ) who told me it was brought 
from the Laft-Indies . I have feen four of this Species, which all agreed in their 
Marks and Colours, though one of them was lefs bright than the others, which I 
apprehend might be a Hen-Bird. I believe we have no Figure extant of this Bird, 
though our Countryman, Mr. Willughby ,. has given a Defcription of it, which he 
calls the Scarlet Parakeeto with green and black Wings. See his Ornithology r P. 117. 
His Defcription is fomewhat brief. I have had Opportunities of giving a fuller 
Defcription of it, as I drew the Bird when living, and had it fent to me after it 
died to get the Skin fluffed, by which Means I could more nicely examine every 
Part, in order to compleat my Defcription. I am fatisfied that this Bird, as well as 
the two laft defcrib’d, are all different and diftind Species of the Parrot , having feejt 
feveml of each Sort, which exadly agreed in Colour,. Size, and Marking, 
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