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The neck is in part naked, but the lower part of it has before fome fine downy 
matter, and behind a few long feathers: the back is of a dark dulky brown : the 
breafl: and belly are of a paler brown ; the wings and tail are darker ; the wings are 
remarkably long, and the legs, where they are not covered with feathers, are white. 
This is a native of the Brafils. Marcgrave calls it Urubu, and Nieremberg, Aura; 
Ray and Willughby call it Vultur Brafilienfis Urubu dictus. 
P S I T T A C U S. 
T H E beak of the Pfittacus is of a hooked or uncinated figure, and the toes are 
four in number, two of which are fituated before, and two behind the foot. 
Divifon the Firji . 
The larger Pfttaci, called Macao $. 
Pfittacus cauda cuneiformi 3 temporihus nudis rugofis. 
The Pfittacus^ with a cuneiform tail , and with 
naked\ rugofe temples . 
This is a large and an extreamly beautiful bird: it is equal to a well-grown pullet 
in fize, and it’s tail is fo long, that, when full-grown and in perfection, it meafures, 
from the top of the head to the extremity of it, more than two feet and a half: the 
head is moderately large, and rifes on the crown ; the beak is very large, thick, and 
ftrong, and is fo hooked, that it is of a femicircular figure : it is more than two 
inches and a half long, and the upper chap of it is two fingers breadth longer than the 
tinder, and the Whole is black : the eyes are large; they are white and black, and 
they are furrounded by three long black lines arifing from the bafe of the beak, and 
continued in a crooked form, fo that they reprefent the letter S quite to the neck : 
the top of the head is a little flatted, though the fides rife into a convexity ; it is green : 
the throat is ornamented with a black line, which furrounds it in the manner of a 
necklace: the bread, the belly, the thighs, the rump, and the under part of the tail, 
are of a fine, ftrong, and elegant faflfron colour.: the upper part of the neck, the 
back, the wings, and the upper fide of the tail, are all of an extreamly beautiful blue : 
the tail is very long, and of a cuneiform fhape. 
The legs are very foort, but they are robuft and ftrong; they are brown, and the 
toes are long, and are armed with very long, ftiarp, and ftrong black claws. 
This is a native of the fouthern parts of America, and of fome parts of the Eaft : 
almoft all the writers on birds have defcribed it. Gefner calls it Pfittacus Cyanocro- 
ceus j Aldrovand, Pfittacus maximus Cyanocroceus; and Ray, Willughby, and others 
have borrowed the fame name. We have it frequently brought over to Us alive, on 
account of it’s beauty, and, when in perfection, it is extreamly elegant. It feeds on 
fruits, and builds in the hollow trunks of trees; it lays two or three eggs, which are 
roundiflh, white, and large; when kept with us, it naturally learns to imitate the hu¬ 
man voice, and the noifes of many of dur domeftic and other animals. 
Pfttacus cauda Cuneiform , temporihus nudis alben- 
tibus, dorfo puniceo. XfjC ttfc Sjp&C&e, 
The ficarlet-backed Pfittacus., with naked , whitifih Qj COCb&tOOIl. 
temples . 
This alfo is an extreamly elegant bird : it is of the fize of our raven, and in colour 
is equal to any of the fpecies in elegance and fplendor: the head is very large, and 
flatted at the top : the beak is very large alfo, and is fo extreamly hooked, that the 
whole forms a kind of femicircle : the upper chap is white, and the lower one black ; 
and the upper one hangs over the lower to a confiderable length : the noftrils are fmatl 
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