2 ®* Hijlory hf ANIMALS, 
PJittacus cauda cuneiformi cinereo-plumb eus. 
The lead-coloured Pfttacus. } with a cuneiform tail, 
This is of the fize of our common crow, and is lefs beautiful than moft of the 
other fpecies of this genus i the head is large, and flatted on the crown; it is well co™ 
vered with feathers, but it has not the lead appearance of a creft or crown: the beak 
is very large; the upper chap is very much hooked, and is two fingers breadth longer 
than the under: the noftrils (land high, and they are fmall, contiguous, and round : 
the eyes are fmall, but very bright, and the whole front of the head feathered, not in 
part naked, as in fome fpecies. 
The neck is thick and fhort, and is of the fame grey with the reft of the bird, 
only on the throat it is a little paler, and at the fides a little darker than elfewhere: the 
whole body, the wings, and the tail are of a dufky grey, with fome admixture of blu- 
ifh in it: the tail is long, and tne two principal or middle feathers are pointed at the 
extremities. r 
The legs are fhort and thick; they are fcaly, and of a bluifh-grey colour, deeper 
than that of the body of the bird; and the toes are long and very robuft, and armed 
with long and ftrong claws. 
This is vesy nequent in the warmer parts of America, but it is not known in the 
Eaft Indies; it is very clamorous in the woods. Moft of the late writers on birds have 
defcribed it. Ray, Willughby, and others call it by the Brafilian name Maracana, 
mentioned firfl by Marcgrave. It is fometimes brought over to us as a curiofity, but* 
having no great oeauty, it is lefs regarded than the others, whofe gaudy colours ftrike 
the eye. J 
Pfittacus cauda cuneiformi 3 capite viridi , alis 
intus rubris . 
The green-headed Parrot , with a cuneiform 
tail\ and the wings red within. 
This is of the bignefs of a large tame pigeon, and is a very beautiful bird : the 
head is large, and flatted on the crown ;• the beak is very large, and fo hooked, that it 
approaches to a femicircular figure: the upper chap is much larger and longer than the 
under, but both are black : the noftrils are fmall, round, and fituated near one ano¬ 
ther at the top of the beak; the ikin about the eyes is naked, and of a whitifh co¬ 
lour, but it is beautifully variegated, as if with needle-work, with black lines: the 
eyes are fmall, but they are very bright; their iris is of a fine deep orange, or faffron 
colour, and the pupil is round and black. 
The head is of a very bright and elegant green colour: the neck, back, and wings 
are alfo of a green, but the colour there is deeper than that of the head : the top of 
the head, indeed, is fomewhat bluifh, and this (hews the reafon of the difference of 
the refl of it from the green of the body, there being a faint tinge of the bluifh. 
all over it, though fcarce diftinguifhabie, unlefs by the companion with the more per¬ 
fect green of the body. 
The tail is very long and very elegant; the feathers are green on their upper fide, 
except that toward the tips they become blue, and of a fine flrong fcarlet on the un¬ 
der fide : the wings alfo are of the fame high fcarlet underneath, and the tips of the 
wings, like the extremity of the tail, are alfo bluifh. 
The legs are very fhort, but they are thick and flrong, as in the other fpecies; they 
are of a dufky brown : the toes are long and robufl, and the claws are alfo very long and 
fharp. There is frequently, but not univerfally, in this fpecies, a fpot of brown on the 
front of the head, a little above the infertion of the beak. 
This 
