light red: belly, fides, thighs, and under tail coverts, deep green
varied with red: quills deep blue: tail green above, red beneath,
and bordered with black, j in fhape much cuneated.
P lace. ■ Inhabits the Molucca IJlands.
Buffon * will not have this called a Maccaw, as he obferves
that there are none in that part of the world.
Seba fays, his bird .came from Papua..
16.
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PARROT.
Pl . VII.
D escription,
Placb,
Lev. Muf.
T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill black? the forehead very
dark purpiifh black: chin and throat dufky purple: round
the bafe of the under mandible the feathers, which project over it,
are green ; the reft of the head, neck, breaft, and belly, very deep
crimfon: back, rump, and wing coverts, fine deep green : on the
lower part of the neck, between .that and the back, a crefcent of
blue: the baftard wing, and prime quills, are fine deep blue;
fecondaries green, fringed with blue : tail cuneiform ; the two
middle feathers eight , inches in length, of a deep blue, deeply
margined with green, with ends of the laft colour; all the others
deep blue j the fhafts of all of them black: the legs duflty.
This is a beautiful ipecies, and is found at ‘Tongo Tabboo, and
jthe other,'Friendly IJles in the South Seas.
* Miji. des oif% vi. p. 202.
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