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The Hiftory ^ANIMALS. 
PJittacus totus viridis macrouros pedibus rubentibus. 
The green, long-tailed PJittacus , with red legs . 
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This fpecies is diftinguilhed at fight from the former, by it’s want of the fcarlet 
collar on the back of the neck, and by the rednefs of it’s legs, as well as by it’s fize • 
yet fo it has happened, that, in defpite of thefe obvious chara&ers, they have been con¬ 
founded together : it is but little bigger than a thrufh 5 the head is larger, in propor¬ 
tion to the body, and is round, and covered thick with fhort and fomewhat broad fea¬ 
thers, which, though they ufually lie very clofe, it can ered at pleafure, fo as to make 
the head feem very nearly equal to the body in diameter: the beak is large, and of 
a fine bright red colour : the upper chap is longer than the under, and is hooked at 
the point ; it is very thick at the bafe, and is there covered with a thick and tolerably 
fmooth fcarlet membrane, in which are placed the noftrils; they hand very high, and 
are round and fituated near one another: the eyes are not very large, but they are 
very bright, and have a pleating and beautiful, as well as a piercing, afped 5 their iris 
is of a faffron colour, and their pupil is black. 
The head, as well as the whole body, are of a ftrong and beautiful green, but the 
back and tops of the wings are of the deeped colour : the head, throat, and bread 
are fomewhat paler, and the belly is yet paler than thofe, and has a tinge of yel- 
lowifh. 
The tail is very long and narrow ; it is pointed at the extremity, and is of the fame 
green with the wings, which is a dufkier than that of the reft of the body. 
The legs are fhort, robuft, and of a bright red ; the toes are fhort but ftrong, and 
the claws are fhort, not greatly hooked and blackifh. 
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This fpecies is a native of many places both in the Eaft and Weft Indies, and is fre¬ 
quently brought over to us, though lefs efteemed than the former fpecies: all the 
writers on birds have defcribed it. Aldrovand calls it Pfittacus minor macrourus totus 
viridis 5 and Ray, Willughby, and moft of thofe who have written fmce his time, 
have continued the name. 
PJittacus macrourus viridi rubro cceruleo et albo 
variegatus. 
The long-tailed PJittacus , variegated with green, 
red , blue, and white . 
This is one of the moft beautiful birds we are acquainted with : the Parrot-kind are 
many of them elegantly variegated, but this has more variety of colouring, and the 
colours themfelves are brighter than in any other : it is about the bignefs of a common 
pigeon, and, though in it’s general form it approaches to the Parrot-kind, it is, in many 
particulars, extreamly different from them. 
The head is fmall and not rounded, as in moft of the others, but flatted on the 
crown, and fomewhat compreffed at the fides: the beak alfo is fmall, and not only 
differs in this from that of all the other Parrot-kind, but alfo in it’s fhape ; it is, in¬ 
deed, hooked at the extremity, as they are; but whereas in theirs the hooked extremi¬ 
ty is formed only of the end of the upper chap, continued beyond the under, and 
turned over it; on the other hand, this has the under as well as the upper chap turned 
down, to form the hooked point. 
The body is variegated with four colours, all of them very bright and glofly; the 
principal are green and red : the whole back, the neck, the top of the head, and the 
covering feathers of the wings are green, except that about the fhoulders there are 
fome few blue feathers: the two outer long feathers of the wings are green, but all 
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