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The head is of a very beautiful and bright fcarlet, except that about the eyes there 
is a naked whitifh lkin : the back and bread, indeed the whole bird, excepting only 
it’s wings, is of the fame fcarlet with the head, only that the colour is fomewhat deep- 
er on the back, and paler on the belly. 
The wings are large and long, and are very elegantly variegated with green, black, 
and yellow : the long feathers are black, and the covering ones green; fome of thefe 
are green throughout, others are only of this colour on their upper fide, the under 
part being fcarlet: the edge of each wing is of a bright yellow, and there is fome- 
times alfo a little of the fame yellow on the inner fide of the wing, next* the body. 
The tail is about four inches long, and is compofed of twelve robuft feathers ; they 
are all of them half red, and half of a greenifh yellow, fothat the upper part of the tail 
is of the greenifh colour, and the lower half red : the legs are very fhort, robuft, and 
black, and above the knee they have fotae few green feathers on them. 
This is a native of the ifland of Madagafcar$ our Eaft India fhips fometimes bring 
it home, and we have them in London : no fpecies of Parrots more readily learns to 
imitate the human voice. None of the ornithologies, except Willughby, have fd 
much as mentioned this fpecies, That author calls it Pfittacus COccineus alis ex viridi 
et nigro variegatis. 
Pfittacus ruher alis coccineo viridi et aureo varie¬ 
gatis. . %i)t cljanseable- 
The red Pfittacus, with green, red, and yellow COlOtttCD 
wings. 
This is another extreamly beautiful, but fmall, fpecies of Parrots: the head is round 
and large ; the beak is not fo large, in proportion, as in mod of the Parrots, but it is 
fufficiently hooked ; it is of a dark grey colour : the membrane which furrouhds it’s 
bafe is of a pale or afh-coloured grey, and the noftrils are very confpicuous ; they are 
two oval depreflions Handing near one another, at the very top of the membrane : 
the eyes are large; their iris is of a filvery white, but the pupil is large and black. 
The head is of a very beautiful rofe colour, with fome fhade of blue, as it is viewed 
in fome lights; and the feathers on the crown are long, and very beautiful, and the 
bird has a power of eredting them at pleafure, fo as to form a kind of creft : the 
back and the upper part of the neck are of the fame elegant red with the head, and 
are fhaded in the fame manner, with a flying tinge of blue difpofed, as we fee it in 
the changeable filks: the bread: and belly are of the fame colour, only paler ; and the 
belly has more of the blue than is to be feen any where elfe. 
The wings are long, and extreamly beautiful; their ground colour is of a fine 
grafs-green, but they are variegated in the mod elegant manner with red and yellow; 
and thefe colours are fo difpofed and blended, that, on looking at the wing againft a 
good light, there are an infinite variety of fine colours feen, fuch as neither the pencil 
nor words can defcribe. 
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The tail is very long; the bird is not larger in the body than a lark, but the tail 
is more than eight inches long: it is of the fame elegant rofe colour with the body, 
but has a tinge not only of the blue, which is vifible on the body, but alfo of green- 
ifh and whitifh. 
The legs are fhort, robuft, and of an afhy grey; the toes are long and fcaly, and 
the claws are thick, not very long or fharp, and black. 
This fpecies is Very frequent in the woods in the inland parts of China, and elfe- 
where in the Eaft, They fly together in large companies, and make a loud noife, as 
> they 
