3 7 S The Hijlory of ANIMALS. 
The head is of a brownifh colour, with a tinge of ferrugineous at the fades, but on 
the top it is of a bright liver colour: the upper part of the neck and the hides are 
green ; the throat is grey, and the bread: and belly are of a mixt colour, the principal 
tinge in which is a ferrugineous brown: the back is green, but in it’s middle there 
Hands alfo a large brown fpot, like the colour of the bread, but not fo much ferrugi¬ 
neous : the tail alfo is of a pale brown. 
The wings are long ; when clofed, their extremities reach to the end of the tail $ 
toward their top there is a very beautiful fpot, which is of a bright blood colour in the 
male, and brown in the female; the middle part of the wings is green, but toward 
the extremity there is fomewhat of a bluifh tinge with it: the feathers which cover 
the thighs are of a bright pale green. 
The legs are robud and moderately long; they are of a greyifh colour: the toes are 
long and fender, and the claws are long, black, and fbarp: the whole foot is of a 
paler grey than the legs. 
This is a native of South America; fpecimens of it are often fent over to us, and to 
France, among thofe of other birds of that climate, preferved in fpirits, or by duffing. 
Marcgrave has mentioned it under the name of Anaca; and Ray, Willughby, and 
others have followed him in it. 
Pfittacus totus aureus cauda longa. 3Zl)t ' 
The long-tailed Pfittacus , all of a gold yellow', 
This is another extreamly lingular, and extreamly elegant, bird: it is of the exadt 
fhape of the common Parrot, but it is not larger than a lark : the head is fmall and 
rounded; the beak is large, in proportion to the lize of the head, and is very much 
hooked, and of a grey colour: the membrane which inveds it’s bafe is of a line 
bright red, and in this the nodrils are very confpicuous j they are round, and dand 
near one another at the bafe of the beak. 
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The eyes are large ; their iris is faffron-colourecj but narrow ; the pupil is very large 
and black, and there is a naked, granulated Ikin'about them. 
The head and the whole body, back, bread, and wings, are all of a line gold yel¬ 
low, extreamly bright and glolfy, except that the extremities of the wings only are of 
a dulky greenilh : the tail is long, and is of a bright and very beautiful yellow. 
The legs are robud and Ihort, and are of a beautiful flelh colour : the toes are long 
and fcaly, and the claws are very long, lharp, and black. 
This is a native of many parts of South America, and is frequently brought alive 
into Europe : it becomes very tame and familiar, and eafily learns to imitate the hu¬ 
man voice, and other founds. Marcgrave has defcribed it under it’s Brafilian name 
Quijubatui } and mod of the late writers on birds have continued it under the fame 
denomination, though few of them feem to have known any thing more of it than 
what they learned from that author’s Ihort defcription. 
Pfittacus ruher alts viridi et nigro variegatis. 
The red Pfittacus y with the wings variegated 
with black and green. 
%l)t fcarlet 
parrot 
This is an extreamly elegant but fmall fpecies $ it is not larger than a blackbird: it’s 
head is fmall, round, and very prominent on the crown : the eyes are large and very 
bright, their iris is yellow : the beak is large, and very much hooked j it is of a yellow 
colour, and the membrane at it’s bafe is black; in this dand the nodrils j they are 
round, large, and placed very near one another, and jud under the forehead, at the 
very bafe of the membrane. 
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