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The slftj-colour’d end Red Parrot. 
T HIS Bird is about the Bignefs of a tame Pigeon, or of the common Afh-co¬ 
lour’d Parrot , with a red Tail, of which it is a Species, if not the very 
fame, accidentally variegated in its Plumage. 
The Bill is of a blackifh Colour, hooked, having Angles on the Sides of the 
upper Mandible; the Tongue is round at the End, black, andfoft; the Noftrils. 
are placed pretty near together, in a white Skin that covers Part of the Bill above; 
this Skin points with an Angle into the Bill on each Side below the Noftrils,. 
in a Manner I have not obferved in other Parrots; the Sides of the Head are 
cover’d with a bare Skin of a whitifh Colour, which joins to the Bill forwards. 
The Eyes are placed in the Middle of thefe bare Parts, on the Sides of the Head 
they are fmall in Proportion ; the Irides of a bright Yellow. The Plumage of the 
whole Bird (except the Tail) is a Mixture of Afh-colour’d and red Feathers: A few 
of each Colour here and there are placed in little Plats all over the Head, Neck, 
Body and Wings, which forms a broad Mixture of the Colours. Each of the above 
Colours is darker in the greater Feathers of the Wings, than in other Parts. The 
Tail is wholly Red, the Feathers being fhort, and of equal Length, not much ex¬ 
ceeding the Length of the Wings when they are clofed. The Legs and Feet are 
made as in all other Parrots, and cover’d with a rough fealy Skin, of a dark Adi- 
Colour, or Blackifh. 
The common Afh-colour’d Parrot is fo much the fame with this, that the Print 
would equally lerve for either of them; the Defcription of the Bill, Eyes, Tail* 
Legs and Feet, is the very fame in both ; all the Difference is, that the common one 
has the Plumage all the Body over of an Afh-Colour, lighter on the Rump and Belly.,, 
and darker on the greater Feathers of the Wings. 
Thefe Birds are brought from Guinea , on the Coaft of Africa. The common 
grey ones are known in London by the Name of Guinea Birds. Sir Hans Sloane , Bart, 
has informed me, that the Red and Blue Sort is found in the Ifland of St . Thomas> pol- 
feffed by the Portugueze y and lying on the Coaft of Africa , in the Atlantick Ocean , 
under the Equinoctial Line. I drew this Bird from Life, at the Houfeof Sir Charles 
Wager , in the Year 1736. It was afterwards prefented to Sir Hans Sloane , who 
has it now [1750] living, at his Houfein Chelfea. Willughby, P. 114. has taken 
the Defcription of the Afh-colour’d Parrot from Aldrovandus , who fays, they 
are brought from Mina , an Indian City; and Albin fiys of it, in his 
Hijlory of Birds , Vol. I. P. 12. this Kind comes from Eajl-India, both which I take 
to be Miftakes, for I am well allured that what we have are brought from Africa , ge¬ 
nerally by the Way of the Weft-lndies y by our Guinea Traders, that fupply our Sugar 
Iflands with Negroes. The mixed Afh-coloured and Red Parrot, hath not been be¬ 
fore deferibed. 
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