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the bii d, are of an elegant ftrong and flaming green, equal to the colouring of «* 
b. iglneit of the parrot-kind : ihe throat, bread, and belly are of a bright and beaut-, 
fur yellow: on the wings and tall there is a lhade of a deep blue mixed with “he 
? tlie manner . of thc A “ ded colours on the neck of a drake: the tail is veiy 
ong ana nairow; it is compoied of but few feathers, and has at firft view fomewhat 
of the appearance of the tails of the Macao kind, which, together with the colouring 
niigirt at hrd fight induce people to luppofe it of the parrot-kind ; but the flrufliue of 
them^ffferent!'^’ an<1 ° f ^ bcak ’ ^ ° ther the moft effentia! charaders, declare 
i he legs are fltort, and are feathered down to the middle joint, with fine, foft, and 
fhort feathers of a pale but glolfy green; the naked part of the legs is black; the toes 
iund three before and one behind, and are, in proportion and ftrudure, perfedly like 
thole of the king-hfoer: all the three anterior toes are joined together at their bafes; 
the exterior one a great way down, the interior only for the compafs of one joint: 
the claws are long and black ; befide the other fingular variegations on this fpecies, 
there is a fpot of mod remarkable kind on the front of the neck j this is compofed of 
three or four black feathers, and a feries of pale blue ones round about them ; it 
fiands in the very middle of the neck, and makes a very beautiful appearance. 
This beautiful bird is a native only of the Brafils, and of fome parts of South 
America. Moft of the ornithologists mention it after Marcgrave, under the name of 
Ifpidse feu Meropi affinis Guara Guainumbi Brafilienfibus Tapinambis, We have fees 
lpecimens of it lent over in tolerable condition to Europe. 
Ifpida dorfo fulvo albo variegato,peEiore albo* 
The Ipfeda , with a yellowifh brown back , va+ 
rlegated with white, and a white breafh 
3£f)t Creeper. 
This is a very lingular little bird, and has puzzled the naturalifts of many ages in 
what clafs, or among what other birds, to place it: the lhape of it’s beak, however, 
arranges it among thefe; and the ftrudure of it’s feet brings it into the genus of the 
Ifpida, though very unlike the common king-fiiher in fize, form, colour, and every 
other obvious particular. 
It is an extreamly fmall bird ; it hardly exceeds a wren in lize : the head is large, 
in proportion to the body, and the crown is flatted: the eyes are fmall, but they are 
very bright and piercing, and their iris is of a blue colour: the beak is long, flender, 
and a little crooked j both chaps are nearly of the fame length, and the upper one is 
black, the lower whitifh : the noftrils are fmall and oblong. 
The bead is of a deep dulky brown, with fomewhat of a tawny yellow in it ; 
there is, on each fide of it, a fpot of white: the back and the upper parts of the 
wings are of a tawny brown, but variegated in the middle of the feathers with white : 
the rump is of the fame brown, only a little paler; the throat, the bread:, and the 
belly are all white : the wings are fhort; the long feathers in each are eighteen in num¬ 
ber ; of thefe the firft: is Abort, and the fourth is the longed: of all; they are brown, 
and have variegations of white in lines, and fpots in their middle, and at their extre¬ 
mities : the covering feathers of the wings are of a darker brown than any of the 
others, and approach toward blacknefs j but they have white variegations, like thofe of 
the back ones, only not fo large or numerous. 
The tail is moderately long, in proportion to the fize of the bird; it is not Iefs than 
an inch and three quarters, and it is compofed of ten rigid feathers, of a dufky brown, 
but with fome faint tinge of a reddifti, as well as yellowifh, in it. 
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