The Hifiory of ANIMALS. 3*1 
are clofed: the legs are rebuff, but they are very fhort and white 5 the feet are alfo 
white, and the toes lefs thick and clumfy than in many of the others : the claws* 
however, are very long, black, and fharp. 
This fpecies is a native of South America, and we have fometimes had it brought 
from the ifland of Madagafcar, but it is lefs valued than the other fpecies, from it’s 
wanting their variegations; a very remarkable one for it’s articulation of voice in the 
city was of this fpecies. Few of the writers on birds have defcribed it. Marcgrave 
mentions it under the name of Ajurucatinga; and Ray, Willughby, and others have 
preferved the name, though they have troubled themfelves about very little more* 
Marcgrave has alfo mentioned it a fecond time, under the name of Ajurupara, defcrib- 
ing a fmaller bird of the fame fpecies, as if a different one. 
P S I T T A C I. 
„ Divifion the "Third. 
The lejfer Parrots, commonly called Par roquets. 
Pfittacus viridis torquatus ventre fuhflavefcente. COQtlttOtt 
The green ., torquated Pfittacus , with the belly yellowijh. 
T HIS is a very pretty little bird, though not fo much variegated, in point of co« 
lour, as feme of the other fpecies $ it is fmaller than any fpecies of the com¬ 
mon Parrot: the head is moderately large and round ; the feathers which cover it are 
fhort, broad, and well plumed: the beak is remarkably large, and is of a bright red 
colour ; the upper chap is much longer than the under, and the form of the whole is 
gibbofe and hooked: the eyes are not large, but they are very bright and piercing in 
their afpedt; the iris is yellow, and the pupil black. 
The head is of a fine grafs-green, and the whole body alfo is green, but the beak 
and upper parts of the wings are darker, and the breaft and belly paler, and the belly 
has feme tinge of yellowifh : from the beak there runs a black line on each fide, 
which is continued under the chin to the beginning of the breaft, and thence to the 
fides of the neck again, and the joins torquis or circle of red which is extended acrofs 
the back part of the neck, and makes what is called the necklace of Parroquets. This 
elegant mark is of the breadth of a man’s little finger in the middle, and grows each 
way fomewhat narrower to the fides. 
The wings are long, and the large feathers are, feme of them, of a dufkier green 
than the others, and thefe have each a fingle fmall round fpot of red on them : the 
tail is very long, and very beautiful; it is not lefs than feven inches in length, when 
the bird is in perfe&ion, and it is of a fine pale yellowifh-green. 
The legs are fhort, robuft, and of a dufky greyifh colour, and the membrane which 
covers the bafe of the beak is alfo greyifh: the feet are clumfy, the toes fhort and 
thick, and the claws lefs fharp than in feme of the other fpecies. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and was the firft bird of the Parrot-kind known in 
Europe; we meet with accounts of it in the oldeft writers, and we find, by thofe 
accounts, that they knew no other. The authors who have written on birds have all 
defcribed it. Ray, Willughby, Aldrovand, and others call it Pfittacus torquatus, 
Macrouros antiquorum $ others, Pfittacus torquatus. 
Pfittacus 
