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rfhe Lejfer Green Parrot. 
T h I s is a little fmaller than any of the foregoing: It is of 
the Size of a middling Pigeon. For Didindtion-fake it may 
be call’d the Green Parrot> with a red, blue, and yellow Plead, 
it being remarkably beautiful on the Plead. 
The Bill is of a whitifh Colour ; the Point and Side about its 
Edges Dusky ; the upper Mandible hath a Wave or Angle on each 
Side of its Edges; it hath a white Skin at the Bafe of the Bill in the 
upper Part, wherein the Nodrils are placed. The Circles round the 
Eyes are of a bright Gold-Colour ; the Eyes have a narrow Space of 
bare white Skin running all round them ; the Forehead (as far as the 
Eyes) is covered with Scarlet-Feathers; the Hinder-part of the Crown 
of- the Head is cover’d with blue Feathers. From the Bafe of the 
lower Mandible of the Bill, on each Side of the Head, is a roundifh 
Orange-colour’d Spot extending beneath each Eye; the Remainder 
of the Head, the Throat, and Neck are Green ; the Hinder-part of the 
Neck, the Back, Rump, and upper Side of the Tail are of a dark 
Green ; the Fore-part of the Neck, the Bread, Belly and Thighs, are 
of a lighter Green; the lower Belly and Covert-Feathers under the 
Tail, are of a very light Green, inclining to Yellow. The greater 
Quills of the Wings are Dusky, with a little Blue on the Edges of the 
outer Webs of the Feathers; thofe next them are Blue at their Tips, 
and Red towards their Bottoms on their outer Webs; the inner Quills 
that fall on the Rump are Green ; all the Covert-Feathers of the Wings 
are Green, except what is called the Badard-Wing, that covers the 
Prime-Quills, which are Blue ; the Ridge of the Wing that falls on the 
Bread is Yellow ; the Legs are fhort, the Tees dand two forwards and 
two backwards on each Foot, and are all cover’d with a rough fcaly 
Skin, of a Lead or Alb-Colour; the Claws are Dusky. 
This Bird was the Property of the Lady cf Sir Charles Wager , who 
obliged me with a Sight of it at Sir Charles ’s Houfe in the Admiralty- 
Office. My Lady told me it was brought from the Weft-Indies , but 
2 he could not tell from what particular Part. 1 have compared the 
Original Draught with all the Defcriptions of Parrots I can meet with, 
but can find no Defcription that agrees with it, fo that I believe it to 
be a Bird not hitherto deferibed. "The 
