364. The Hijiory of ANIMALS, 
The noftrils are fituated toward the bafe of the beak3 they are two fmall, round aper¬ 
tures, and dand very near one another : the eyes are large and very beautiful ; they 
are of a deep faffron colour in the iris, and the pupil is black : the upper part of the 
head is yellow. 
The body is throughout of a very elegant green : the back is deeper, and the belly 
is paler, and has often a cad of yellowifh : the wings are of the fame deep green with 
the back, but the larged: of the long feathers in them is bluifh, and the upper edge of 
each wing is of a very beautiful red= 
The tail is fihort, and has a great deal of red in it on the upper fide, and has fome 
yellow, and a fpot or two of the fame red on the under part: the legs are grey • they 
are fhort, but very robud : the feet are drong, and the toes long and fcaly • the"claws 
are black, but they are not very drarp or long, though of fufficient thicknefs. 
There is ufually a circle of a whitifh colour about the eyes, but this, though very 
common, is not univerfal: the colour of the back is, in the male, of a brighter, in 
the female, of a dufkier, green, but in both it is very elegant. 
This fpecies is a native of many parts of America, and of the Eaft Indies: all the 
writers on birds have defcribed it. Aldrovand calls it Plittacus viridis alarum coda 
fuperne rubente 5 and mod of the late writers have mentioned it under the fame 
name. It is the fpecies mod frequently kept in our houfes, and learns to imitate the 
human voice with great facility. 
Pfittacus viridis pedibus plumbeis , alis variegatis. 
The green Pfittacus , with variegated wings 5 and 
bluifio legs . 
3Tij t palnteti- 
tbrngefi parrot. 
This is of the fize of a crow : the head is large, and well-covered with large fea¬ 
thers 5 the beak is remarkably large and drong : the upper chap is a great deal larger 
than the under, and it’s hooked point bends over it, and is extended fingly for half a 
finger’s breadth in a hooked form 3 the colour of the upper part of it is a bluiiln- 
green, and at the fides it is yellow3 toward the extremity alfo it has a tranfverfe 
white fpot: the lower chap is of a lead colour, but fomewhat yellow in the middle. 
The upper part of the head is ornamented with a number of yellow feathers: the 
fides of the head and the whole body are green : the back and upper parts of the 
wings are of a darker, the bread and belly of a paler, green, and, indeed, toward 
the belly, there appears a little yellownefs in the green 5 and the roots of the feathers 
are every-where grey. 
The large feathers of the wings are, at their origin, green, but this by degrees 
turns lower down the feather into a bluiih, and thence into an elegant purplidi, hue, 
and toward the extremities there are evident tints of a fine purple, and fome black. 
Thofe of the fecond order are entirely yellow, and make a very beautiful variegation 
in the middle of the wing 3 and the feathers on the interior part toward the belly are 
beautifully dained with purple, black, green, and fcarlet. 
The tail is large, and very beautiful3 it is compofed of twelve long and very 
large feathers: the four outer ones each way are green at their bafe, but lower down 
they are yellow on the inner fide, and of the mod elegant fcarlet on the outer: and 
the others have, befide thefe colours, variegations of yellow and green : the four mid¬ 
dle feathers have much lefs variegation 3 they are of a fimple green all the way to the 
extremities, where they are tipped, as it were, with yellow. 
The legs are robud and fihort 3 the feet are drong, and are of a dufky lead colour: 
the toes are thick, but notjong 3 the claws are black, and they are longer and diarper 
than in almod any other of the Parrot-kind. 
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