376 The lliftory of ANIMALS. 
This is a native of Africa, and feems alfo, from the accounts of Marcgrave and 
Pifo, to be common to the Brafils, and fome other parts of South America. We 
have had it alive in London. Marcgrave mentions it, but he does not give it any pe¬ 
culiar name*, he only fays, that it in fome degree refembles the Tuiaputejuba the 
fpecies before defcribed. J ? 
Pfittacus glaucus cauda brevi , capite et pe&ore luteo. 
The bluifh-green Pfittacus, with a yellow head and 
breafi , and a Jhort tail . 
Sentiapa* 
This is a very lingular fpecies; it is of the bignefs of our common thrulh : the 
head is large, round, and very beautifully covered with feathers: the beak is large, 
very robufl and hooked, and is throughout of a deep glofly black : the membrane 
which covers it’s bafe is alfo black ; it is extended over a third part of the beak and 
is of an irregular furface: the nollrils ftand toward the bafe of this, and are of an 
oval figure, and placed very near one another: the eyes are large, and they are re¬ 
markably bright and piercing j the iris is yellow, but it is not broad 5 the pupil is 
very large and black. 
The whole head is of a yellow colour, deeper at the fides, and paler on the crown : 
the breafi and the belly are alfo yellow, but of a paler tinge than the head ; the 
fhoulders, back, and wings are of a very beautiful bluifh-green, a colour not met with 
in this perfedtion in any other fpecies, and the whole bird is not only tinged equally on 
the upper part with this colour, but the feathers are remarkably even, gloffy, and fhining. 
The wings are large, and of the fame blue green colour throughout, except at their 
tips, where they are black : the tail is of the fame blue green in the back; the legs 
are fhort, robufl, and of a deep finning black j the toes are robufl and fhort, and the 
claws fhort but thick, and very fharp at the points. 
This is a native of Peru, Mexico, and the Brafils: the Portuguefe there are very 
fond of it for it’s docility, and fometimes fend it over into Europe, but it feldom 
lives long out of it’s native country. Marcgrave and Pifo mentioned it under it’s 
Brafilian name of Jendaya ; and Ray, Willughby, and others have preferved the name, 
and copied their imperfedt defcripdons. The fpecimens which have been fent over 
dried to England, and other parts of Europe, lince their time, have enabled us to 
make much more full defcriptions of thefe birds; and to thefe are, in a great meafure, 
owing the improvements made within the lafl forty or fifty years in natural hiflory. 
Pfittacus viridis cceruleo variegatus rofiro rubente , pedibus 
cinereis . 
j The green Pfittacus , variegated with blue , with a red 
beak , and grey legs . 
Xnictc. 
This is one of the fmall fpecies, but it has an extreamly elegant and clean appear¬ 
ance : it is about the bignefs of our lark, but it is thicker, in proportion to it’s length, 
and flands remarkably eredt and firm : the head is large, in proportion to the body, 
and is round, and very regularly and beautifully covered with fhort and broad feathers: 
the eyes are large, and very piercing; their iris is of a dufky faffron colour; the pupil 
large and black : there is a fmall naked fpace about the eyes, the fkin of which is of 
a pale grey colour, and granulated furface: the beak is very large, in proportion to 
the fize of the bird, and is of a beautiful pale red colour: the upper chap is longer 
than the under, and it’s point turns over the extremity of the other, as in the reft of 
the Parrots: the membrane at the bafe is of a bluifh-grey; the noftrils are very con- 
fpicuous toward the upper part of this; they are perfectly round, and ftand very clofe 
to one another $ the whole membrane is of a wrinkled furface. 
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