The Hifiory 0^ ANIMALS. 365 
This fpecies is a native of the Eaft Indies, and is frequent alfo in fome parts of 
America, and in other warm regions; it is not unfrequently brought over into Eu¬ 
rope, and learns as readily as any of them to imitate the human voice. The writers 
on birds have all defcribed this fpecies. Aldrovand and Gefner call it Pfittacus Poici- 
lorynchos ; and Ray, Willughby, Charleton, and others have borrowed the fame 
name, though it would not have been difficult to have devifed a better. 
Pfittacus viridis capite et peclore flavefcentibus, alls 
coccineo variegatis . . XDe vtllnW- 
"The green PJittacus , with the head and breafl yel- btC&fi’CD 
low) and the wings variegated with fear let. 
This is of the fize of a common pigeon, and is a very beautiful bird : the head is 
large and rounded ; it is covered thick with broad, though fhort, feathers: the beak 
is large, very ftrong, much hooked at the extremity, and throughout of a deep black : 
the noftrils are lituated near it’s bafe, and are two round apertures near one another : 
the eyes are very bright and beautiful; their iris is of a deep faffron colour, and the 
pupil black. 
The head is of a bright and beautiful yellow, except juft on the crown, where it 
is of a bluifh-green : the throat is alfo of the fame bluiffi-green, and the breaft and 
belly are of the fame yellow with the reft of the head 3 but the belly, toward the 
lower part, has fome faint tinge of greenifh among the yellow : the back is green, and 
the upper part of the tail is partly yellow, and partly green : the neck and the upper 
part of the wings are of the fame full green with the back, but the upper verge of 
the wings, toward the body, is tinged with a beautiful fcarlet 3 and the feathers in each, 
next to the body, are black, and the others tinged with fcarlet at the extremities: the 
rump is alfo tinged with a fine fcarlet at the hinder edge: the legs are brown ; they 
are very fhort, but very robuft : the feet are large and ftrong, and the claws are black 
and ftrong, but not very long or (harp. 
This is a native of the Weft Indies, and of fome parts of the Eaft; it is very 
noify in the woods, but, when kept in a cage, it is not very docile. Moft of the au¬ 
thors who have written on birds have defcribed it. Gefner and Aldrovand call it 
Pfittacus viridis melanorynchos 5 and Ray, Willughby, and others who have written 
fince them, have copied the name they found in them, to fave the trouble of forming 
a better. 
Pfittacus viridis froirte albefcente y gula cinnabarina. 
The green Pfittacus , with a white fronts and red 
throat. 
This is an extreamly beautiful fpecies 3 it is of the fize of a large pigeon : the head 
is large and rounded ; the beak is very large, thick, and white 3 the noftrils are final!, 
round, and fituated very near one another, and very high: the eyes are large, but 
they are lefs bright than that of many other fpecies 5 their iris is of a dufky, ferrugi- 
neous brown, with fome tinge of red : the pupil is black. 
The fore-part of the head is white, variegated with fmall fpots of black, and the 
hinder part, as alfo the neck, back, wings, and rump, are all of a full deep green : 
the throat is of a very bright and beautiful fcarlet, and the tops of the wings 
are alfo of the fame colour: the breaft is green, and fo are alfo the feathers which 
cover the thighs, but the belly, between the thighs, is of a reddifh-brown: the 
upper parts of the wings have fome of the fmaller feathers blue, variegated with 
white; and the very extream part of the belly, near the infertion of the tail, is 
yellow. 
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parrot. 
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