I 
The Hiftory of ANIMALS, 375 
very hooked ; it is of a pale red colour: the upper chap is confiderably longer than the 
tinder one, and turns over it, and is of a deep blood colour at the point, which is 
very fharp and folid: the membrane inverting the bafe of it is a ftrong red, deeper 
than the generality of the beak, but not fo deep as the tip of it: this is fomewhat 
wrinkled, and, toward the part where it is connected to the forehead, rtand the nof- 
trils: they are large, round, and rttuated very near to each other. 
The head is of a ftrong green, but when the feathers are raifed, as the bird fre¬ 
quently carries them, there appears a tinge of yellowifti throughout them : the back 
and the upper parts of the wings are of a deep green, and the breaft and belly are 
much paler, and have more yellownefs among the green, than there is on the head. 
The wings are long, and the principal feathers have, in fome lights, a good deal of 
a bluifh tinge mixed with the green : the tail is rtiort; it fcarce at all appears beyond 
the tips of the wings, when they are clofed: the colour is the fame green with that of 
the back, but on the under part it is fomewhat pale and yellowifti. 
The legs are fhort, robuft, and of a dufky bluifh colour : the feet are large; the 
toes both long, and thick, and fcaly ; the claws are very ftrong, but they are fhorter, 
and lefs {harp at the point than in fome other fpecies. 
- • • lT> if ‘ I 
This is a native of the Brafils, and is often carried over alive to Portugal, where it 
is kept in cages; it eafily grows tame and familiar, and will learn to imitate the human 
voice with great readinefs. Marcgrave and Pifo have defcribed it under it’s Brafilian 
name of Tuitirica; and Ray, Willughby, and the generality of the later writers on 
birds have preferved that name, and fome imperfedt defcription of it. 
PJittacus viridis cauda brevi^ peElore fuhflavefcente . 
The fdort-tailed^ green PJittacus ^ with a yellowijh breaft . 
This is one of the fmaller Pfittaci, and is a very beautiful bird, though of no great 
variety of colouring; it is about the bignefs of a lark: the head is large and round, 
and the feathers which cover it are fhort, but they are broad and well plumed ; they 
always lie very clofe, and in a beautiful imbricated order, refembling fcales 5 and the 
bird never eredts them, as is ufual with many others of the fpecies: the eyes are large 
and black, and there is a naked and rough fkin of a pale grey about them : the beak is 
large and thick ; it is very hooked, and is all over of a black colour : the upper chap 
is much longer than the under, turning over it at the end, and the very point is 
black: the membrane which covers the bafe of it is of a deep bluifh-grey, and the 
noftrils ftand toward the top of this; they are roundifh, and are fomewhat oval, and 
are fmaller than in almoft any other fpecies; but they ftand almoft clofe together, as 
in the generality of the others. 
\ \ 
The whole head is of a ftrong and bright green, only that on the crown there is a 
tendency to yellowifhnefs, which is not at all feen on the fides: the back and the 
upper part of the wings are of a very beautiful ftrong green : the breaft is yellowifti, 
and the belly ftill paler and more yellow : the whole upper furface appears of this ftrong 
and elegant green, but in the wings there is a blackifhnefs mixed with it in fome de¬ 
gree, that is not at all diftinguifhable on the back. 
The tail is ftiort and broad, it fcarce at all extends beyond the tips of the wings, 
when clofed; it is of the fame green with the back on the upper fide, and on the 
under it is of a paler green, but there is not much of the yellow tinge of the breaft 
or belly to be diftinguifhed in it. 
The legs are moderately long, and are not fo thick as in many of the Parrot-kind; 
they are of a dufky bluifh colour and fcaly: the toes are fhort, thick, and fcaly, and 
the claws are long, black, and very fharp. 
This 
