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ring round the neck, as in the laft j as alfo the dull red Ipot on
the wings: tail above blue j beneath dull yellow: legs and claws
ath-colour : the two middle tail feathers are very long and blue j
the others (which are only two inches and a half long) are olive
green fringed with blue, though in Mr. Edwards’s figure the tail
feathers feem to. Ihorten by equal .gradations..
This bird' inhabits Bengal.
Thefe laft I believe to be varieties of each other, as I have
feen and examined both of them minutely. -.
Mr. Sonnerat fays it inhabits Luzonia; and that the fpoton the
wings is of a bright red, and the irides yellow : otherwife one
defeription might ferve.
Lev. Muß
T ENGTH from the bill to the middlemoft tail feather but one,
twelve inches. The bill has the upper mandible red; the
lower black: cere and orbits alh-colour: the whole head of a
peach-bloffom-colour, with a green tinge in front: from eye to
eye, palling over the cere, is harrow line of black : from the
lower mandible arifes a ftreak of black, palling obliquely on each
fide of the neck a little way, and growing wider backwards :
from the hind head to the tail all the.plumage is light green ;
but on the middle of .the wing .coverts it almoft approaches to
yellow: the chin, fore part of the neck, the breaft, and as far as
the middle of the belly, are of a reddiih blofibm-colour, with a
cheftnut tinge : the feathers on the thighs, and middle of the
belly and vent, are green : all the tail feathers are green, except
the two middle ones, which are much inclined to blue, and are
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very long, being, in the fpecimen I deferibed this from, at leaft
three inches longer than any of the others; and how much
longer they had been, is not known, as they were broken at the
ends; the lhafts of all of them are white: the legs alh-colour,
One of thefe is in high prefervation at Sir A. Lever’s.
Said to come from the Ijle of Borneo. { lace.
La grande Perruche a longs brins, Buf. rif. vi. p. 15 j . V ar39. *C.
Perruche de Malac.............. — , P I . tn l. 887. MALACCA
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t-pHlS, fays Buffon, one would take for a variety of the laft D e s c r i p t io n .
but one, were it not for the fize» which is much larger»
being fixteen inches in length: there are befides feme few differences,
for the green colour throughout has a tinge of yellow:
the whole of the head is not of a rofe-colour, but only the region
o f the eyes and the hind head, the crown being green: the reft of
the body is green ; and the ring round the neck is wholly wanting
: the tail is of the fame colour with that of the two laft, but
deeper, and has feme appearance of blue on the middle of the
wings. I think there does not remain a doubt of this being a
further Variety, as we know the ring does not appear in feme
other fpecies till mature age ; and as to the length merely, that
in the Leverian Mufeuni miift have been at leaft fixteen inches, if
the two middle tail feathers had been perfeft.
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