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the reft are of an extreamly beautiful blue j and all the feathers of the wings, as well 
the long ones as the covering ones, have the fcapi white.. 
The variegations about the head are elegant: the beak itfelf is red, but the mem- 4 
brand which covers it’s bafe is of a deep black colour: the eyes are large, and their 
iris is of a ftrong fcarlet, and the pupil black : the throat is of a dufky colour, but 
with a confiderable tinge of red : the tides of the head are variegated each with blue 
fpots, one before, and the other behind, the eyes: the bread: and belly are altogether 
red ; the tail is very long, and is green, only the fcapi of the feathers are white j the 
legs and feet are of the fame deep and glofly black, with the membrane that invefts 
the bafe of the beak : the feet are clumfyj the toes fhort and thick, and the claws 
not very long or crooked. 
This is a native of Japan. The firft account we had of it was from Aldrovand, 
who had never feen the bird, but had formed a full defcription from a painting which 
had been done from the life : the Angularity of the colouring, and of the form of the 
beak, made Ray and Willughby doubt of the truth and accuracy of the figure; but 
the bird has been fince fent over preferved, and anfwers perfectly to it. 
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Mod: of the writers fince Aldrovand have mentioned it, and they have all borrow-* 
ed his name j he calls it Pfittacus Erythroleucos macrouros. 
Pfittacus criftatus macrouros crifta et cauda ru - 
bentibus. e crefteD 
The long-tailed, crefied Pfittacus, with the crefi |BattOC[Urt. 
and tail red\ 
This is a very Angular and a very beautiful fpecies; it has much the appearance of the 
great, long-tailed Parrot, or Macao-kind, but that it is fo much fmaller ; it hardly exceeds 
a jackdaw in fize: the head is moderately large, rounded, and very thick covered 
with fhort and broad feathers, and on it’s top has a beautiful creft: the beak is 
large, protuberant on the back of the upper part, and hooked at the end : the eyes are 
moderately large, and very bright and piercing in their afpedt j their iris is of a fine 
ftrong red, and the pupil black : the back and fhoulders are of a fine deep grafs-green; 
the breaft is of a paler green, but ftill of the fame pure tinge; the belly is yet paler, 
and is fomewhat yellowifh: the head alfo is of an elegant grafs-green, but the creft, 
which is long and very beautiful, is of a fine bright fcarlet: this creft is compofed of 
fix feathers, three of them longer, and three fhorter, and is ufually carried eredt, 
though the bird can lay it down flat at pleafure, in which ftate it gives the appearance of 
a fine, long fpot of red, carried from the hinder part of the head down to the neck, 
toward the fhoulders: the tail is long and narrow ; it is formed but of a few feathers, 
and is of the fame elegant fcarlet colour with the creft. 
The legs are fhort, robuft, and of a bluifh-grey : the toes are fhort and fcaly, and 
the claws are long, black, and fharp. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies; they fay that it has been alfo fometimes brought 
over from South America, but this feems lefs attefted. Aldrovand calls it Pfittacus 
erythroclorus criftatus, and moft of the writers, fince his time, have continued the 
fame name to it. 
Pfittacus minimus macrouros totus virefcens , roftro nigricante . 
l*he very finally long-tailed Pfittacus, all over green r but with a black 
beak . 
This is an extreamly pretty little bird, it is not larger than a fparrow : the head is 
fmall, not round, as in moft of the Parrots, but comprefTed at the tides, and a little 
flatted on the crown : the beak is moderately large 5 the upper chap is longeft, and is 
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