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before her to guard her, and would fcarce fuffer even the perfon who fed them to 
approach within three or four yards of her. 
Mod of the writers on birds have defcribed this fpecies. Ray, Willughby, and 
others have called it Pfittacus major diverficolor j Gefner, Plittacus Erythrocyaneus $ 
and Marcgrave, by it’s Brafilian name, Araracanga* We call it by the general name of 
the Macao. ' 
Pfittacus cauda cuneiform /, temporibus nudis , lineis 
plumofis. 
The cuneiform - tailed Pfittacus , with naked temples , 
and plumofie lines. 
This is another very beautiful fpecies; it is of the fize of a full-grown pullet: the 
head is large and flatted -at the top; the beak is very large, and extreamly hooked: the 
upper chap is a finger’s breadth and a half longer than the under one, and turns down 
over it: the colour of this is a dirty brownifh-white, and that of the lower chap a 
dufky brown, almoft black, fometimes entirely black : the noftrils ftand very high 
near the infertion of the beak at the head; they are fmall, round, and almoft conti¬ 
guous : the region of the temples is naked, and variegated with a dufky, blackifh co¬ 
lour, on a whitifh-ground, and decorated with plumofe lines: the feathers which 
form thefe are black and very fmall, and the whole variegation caufed by thefe lines 
looks like needle-work : the anterior part of the head, a little above the infertion of the 
beak, is ornamented with a kind of crown or mitre of green feathers: the throat on 
the upper part, juft under the beak, has a circle of elegant black feathers ; and the 
fides of the neck, the reft of the throat, the whole breaft alfo and belly, are yellow : 
the head, the neck behind, the whole back, and the upper part of the wings, are all of 
a ftrong and elegant blue. 
Toward the extremities of the wings there are fome yellow feathers, and there are 
alfo fome of the fame colour about the tail; the tail itfelf is very long and blue, but 
thefe feathers, and fome of the others, are only blue on their upper furface, being 
black underneath, and having often fomewhat of blacknefs about the edges alfo. 
The legs are very robuft and thick, but they are fhort; they are of a dufky greyifh 
colour, and the toes are long, ftrong, and armed with very fharp claws. 
This is a native of many parts of the Eaft Indies, and alfo of South America. Moft 
of the writers on birds have named it. Marcgrave has defcribed it under it’s Brafilian 
appellation of Araranna; and moft of the writers fince his time have called it by the 
fame name. We have it fometimes brought over to us alive, but it is milerable in 
our winters. 
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Pfittacus maximus albus capite crifiato. tttXltU 
The great white Pfittacus , with a crefted head. COffe&iOO* 
This is a very ftately and fine bird j the fize is that of a common hen : the colour is 
all over a bright and beautiful white : the head is large, and is ornamented with a very 
elegant creft, which it eredts at pleafure, and which is formed of a great number of 
moderately long feathers: the beak is very large and hooked; the upper chap is 
whitifh, and much larger and longer than the other, which is black: the eyes are 
fmall j and the noftrils, which ftand at the top of the beak, are alfo very fmall, round- 
ifh, and almoft contiguous: the wings are moderately long, and the tail is very long 
and white. 
It is a native of America, and is frequently brought over to us j it lives with us 
more comfortably than many of the other fpecies, and very familiarly learns to imitate 
our voices. 
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Sltatanna. 
PJittacus 
