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The fmallet GREEN and RED INDIAN ParoQueEr. 
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N this Plate, which was vice from Nature, and not from a Draw- 
ing, the Bird is reprefented of its proper Size. It is lefs than the fmall red- 
headed Paroquet, commonly brought into Egland, which is pretty well figur’d and 
and defcrib’d by A/bin in his Hiftory of Birds, Vol. 3. Page 15. tho’ his Drawing is 
fomething too fmall, feeing the Bird is a little bigger than what I have here repre- 
fented, which is the leaft of the Parrot-kind I ever met with ; the Bill i is fhaped like 
thofe in the greater Sort of Parrots, of a bright Orange- colour. I could perceive no 
Skin covering the Bafis of the Bill; the Noftrils were near together i in the upper Part 
of the Bill, very near the Feathers of the F orehead the Eyes are furrounded with 
a narrow Space of Skin, of a light Flefh- colour ; Sh the Top of the Head is Red, or of 
the Colour of a Sev Orange, which in the hinder Part of the Head gradually becomes 
Green, uniting : itfelf with the Colour of the Back ; the under Side of the Bird, mid- 
dle of the Back, Wings, and Tail, are of a fine Green- ‘colour, lighter on the Throat, 
Breatt, Belly, and Thighs, and darker on the Back Coverts of the Wing and Tail, 
darkeft of all in the greater Wing-feathers ; ; the lower Half of the Back and Rump, 
quite to the Tail, is covered with the fame bright Red or Orange- colour with the 
Head, being intermixed with the Green, and (Saag itfelf in the middle of the Back ; 
the Legs, Flee and Claws, are of a Flefh-colour, the Toes ftanding as in pine: 
Parrots ; the infide of the Quills, and dns under-fide of the Tail are Blue a very 
little inclining to Green. ie 
This Bird was brought from Eolland, in sae by Dr. Gromwel Mortimer, Secre- 
tary to the Royal. Society, who bought it there with other Things brought from fome 
Dutch Settlement in the Ea/ ae He was pleafed to lend it me, ae [might draw 
it. This Bird was pl - in camphorated Spirits, and appeared of a brown Colour 
whiltt in the Spirits, © 0 the Glafs was white. Flint,and the Spirits clear; and 
when taken out, wathe ed and dried, it became of the” Colours ove ssonteeal I 
believe ene Se hath y ye taken —— ‘Bird. 
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