GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill hooked. Upper mandible moveable. 
Nofirils roundifh, placed in the bafe of the bill. 
Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 
Legs fhort. Toes formed for climbing, v/z. two for- 
ward and two backward. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C. 
Long-tailed variegated Parrot, with head, throat, breatt 
and vent crimfon; back black undulated with yellow- 
green, blue wings and tail. 
The two muddle tail-feathers are green. 
NONPAREIL ParRot.—Naturali/’s Mi/cellany. P?. 93. 
THE vaft Ifland or rather Continent of Auftralia, 
Auttralafia, or New Holland, which has fo lately at- 
tracted the particular attention of European navigators 
and naturalifts, feems to abound in fcenes of peculiar 
wildnefs and fterility; while the wretched natives of 
many of thofe dreary diftricts feem lefs elevated above 
the inferior animals than in any other part of the known 
world; Caffraria itfelf not excepted; as well as lefs en- 
dued 
