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The Hifiory of ANIMALS. 
Pfittacus viridis capite flavefcente , vertice cceruleo . p&tttt- 
The green Pfittacus , <2 yellow heady and blue crown . flMttOt* 
This is one of the beautifulleft of the whole Parrot-kind ; it is of the fize of a 
tame pigeon : the head is large and round, and is remarkably beautiful in it’s form, as 
well as colouring: the beak is very large, long, hooked, and black; the upper chap 
is much longer than the under, and the noftrils are round, and ftand near it’s bafe, 
but not fo clofe to one another as in the other fpecies: the eyes are very bright and 
beautiful • the iris is of a gold yellow, and the pupil black, and they have a peculi¬ 
arly brifk and fprightly afped. 
The head is of a fine gold yellow, oply on it’s crown there is a beautiful and regu¬ 
lar oval fpot of a bright blue: the throat alfo is of the fame bright yellow with the 
head. 
The body is of a very beautiful grafs-green ; the upper part of the back is darker 
than any other part; the wings are long, and their principal feathers are variegated in 
an extreamly elegant manner ; they are one half yellow, and the other half black, ex¬ 
cept at the very tips, where they are of the fame beautiful blue with the top of the 
head, and they have alfo fome green about them, paler, but not lefs bright, than that 
of the body, and very happily intermixed with the other variegations. 
The tail is moderately long; when clofed, it appears fimply green like the body; 
but, when the bird fpreads and expands it, the feathers are found to be elegantly va¬ 
riegated toward their edges with black, red, and blue, as if ornamented with fringes 
of thofe colours: the legs are robuft, but fhort, and the toes are ftrong and fcaly ; 
they are of a dufky grey, with a call; of bluifh, and the claws are long, black, and 
fharp. 
This is a native only of the warmer parts of America; it is frequent in the Brafils, 
and in the woods, about the mines of Potofi. Marcgrave, and other of the writers on 
the natural hiftory of thofe countries, have defcribed it. They have called it, by it’s 
Bralilian name, Ajurucura; and our authors, who have written on the fame fubjeds, 
have faved themfelves the trouble of forming an intelligible one by keeping this, as 
they have done alfo in too many other of the Bralilian animals. 
Pfittacus viridis capite flavo viridi et albo variegato. 
The green PfittacuSy with the head variegated with yellow , greeny and 
, white . 
This is alfo an extreamly elegant bird; it is fmaller than the former fpecies, it's 
fize not exceeding that of a jack-daw: the head is fmaller than in mod: of the Par*- 
rot-kind : the beak, however, is large ; it is of a mixed, brownifh, and bluifh- 
grey colour, and the upper chap is conliderably longer than the under : the noftrils are 
very large, and ftand at fome diftance from one another, but very near the bafe of the 
beak; they are round, and of a paler colour than the reft of the membrane in which 
they ftand : the tongue is large, thick, and flefhy; and the eyes are fmall, but very 
bright and piercing : their iris is yellow, and the pupil black. 
The head is of a very elegant blue, but about the center of the crown there is an 
elegant fpot of yellow, with fome white intermixed among it; between that fpot 
and the origin of the beak there is alfo a very beautiful fpot of a fea-green; and over 
the eyes there is a broad fpace of an elegant and pure yellow : the neck is green on 
the hinder part, but the throat is of the fame gold yellow with the upper part of the 
ftdes of the head : the body is of a fine grafs-green; the back is darker, and the breaft 
and belly paler the wings are long, and the tail fcarce exceeds them by half an inch, 
when doled. 
