. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . f this race) its body is of a grey, orlead colour, rather shaded with white about thehead; and frequently reddish feathers intheir wings and tails. The green parrot, asthe appellation implies, is mostly of that co-lour, though some are much darker thanothers : its head is generally shaded with a brightyellow^ very frequently approaching to a goldcolour; some of them also have scatlct feathersupon their tails and wings; others blue, andmany have both; but thfese trifling variationsare so exceedingly numerous, that it would beno less prol
. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . f this race) its body is of a grey, orlead colour, rather shaded with white about thehead; and frequently reddish feathers intheir wings and tails. The green parrot, asthe appellation implies, is mostly of that co-lour, though some are much darker thanothers : its head is generally shaded with a brightyellow^ very frequently approaching to a goldcolour; some of them also have scatlct feathersupon their tails and wings; others blue, andmany have both; but thfese trifling variationsare so exceedingly numerous, that it would beno less prolix than unnecessary to dwell uponthem. The lory. The itiost beautiful of this spe-cies is that brought frOin the JBrasils, arid whichis pretty nearly the size of a common parrot. Ithas a fine bright blue tuft of feathers growingon the top of the head ; the rest of the headand the neck, and the upper part of the back,are scarlet, with a fine ring of yellow encir-cling the neck; the covert feathers of thewings are a fine green, intennixed with yellow, and. //n^ _ /j//7C^ (yrVj^yy^rO
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