37 ® 5 ^e Hifiory of ANIMALS, 
The head is of a deep black, without any variegation : the neck and back in the 
female are alfo of the fame deep black, but, in the male, the upper part of the back 
is red: the bread: and belly are of a very drong and deep fcarlet, but the lower part 
of the belly, toward the tail, is black : the wings and tail are black, and the legs are 
of a bluifh-grey. 
It is a lefs clumfy bird than mod of the Parrot-kind : it dands very ere&, and has 
at once a fprightly and a dately appearance : the legs are longer and lefs robud than 
many of the fpecies ; and the toes, though they Hand two each way, as in the red, are 
fmaller than in any other : the claws are long, black, and fharp. 
This is a native of theforeds in Paraguay, and fome other parts of South America. 
It is fometimes carried alive into Portugal, where it is taught to imitate the human 
voice, as the other Parrots do, and is much valued for the fingularity of it’s 
colouring. 
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PJittacus viridis , capite , pe£lore y etfiummitatibus 
alarum coccineis . 
The green Pfettacus, with the head, breajl 3 and 
top of the wings red . 
This is a very lingular and a very beautiful fpecies: the head is fmall, and lefs 
rounded than in mod of the others, being compreffed at the lides, and a little flatted 
on the top: the beak is large, very hooked, and it’s upper chap prominent a great 
way beyond the under; the nodrils are fmall and round, and they dand fo near the 
bafe of the beak, that they are not eafily feen, unlefs looked for: the eyes are fmall, 
but they are very bright and piercing; the iris is of a faffron colour, the pupil black. 
The head is of an elegant crimfon ; the body is green, but the bread and the tops 
of the wings are of the fame drong and elegant red with the head : the wings are 
long, and the tail reaches about three quarters of an inch beyond their tips, when 
they are clofed : the legs are fhort, but robud, and the feet are alfo thick and drong j 
the claws are fharp and black. 
This is a native of South America. Marcgrave has defcribed it under it’s Bradlian 
, i)ame Tarabe ; and Ray, Willughby, and others have borrowed it, 
Pfittacus cruribus albis cor pore toto viridi. 
The white-legged\ green Pfittacus* 
This is a very lingular fpecies, though in beauty it is much inferior to the former, 
and to many of the others: it is of the lize of a moderately grown pullet; the head 
is large, round, and covered thick with fhort and broad feathers: the beak is very 
large and very hooked $ it is of a dulky brown colour; the upper chap is much 
longer than the under, and it’s upper part is gibbofe, and it’s point which hangs over the 
other very fhaYp-t the bafe of it is covered for a conliderable way with a thick, white 
membrane; in this the nodrils are very confpicuous: they are two roundifh apertures, 
placed very near one another, and toward the bafe of the beak. 
The eyes are fmall, but very bright and piercing; their iris is of a beautiful red. 
The feathers which cover the head are all of the fame uniform green : the neck is 
of a fomewhat darker green than the head; and the body, efpeciaily the back and 
upper parts of the wings, are of a green yet darker than that: the bread and belly are 
fomewhat paler, but the whole is without variegation. 
The wings are moderately long, and their long feathers very robud ; the tail Is 
fhort | it does not reach more than an inch beyond the tips of the wings, when they 
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