. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. PARRAKEEl. '35 of the new world. But it is ftill more fingular that Briflbn fhould confider the fame bird as the Parrot of the ancients; as if the Greeks and Romans went to America to find it. Befides, it is a different fpecies, which we have already defcribed. The Rofe-ringed Parrakeet is fourteen inches long, but of this extent the tail and its two pro- jecting feathers occupy rear two thirds; thefe feathers are of a beryl blue ; all the reft of the plumage is a lig
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. PARRAKEEl. '35 of the new world. But it is ftill more fingular that Briflbn fhould confider the fame bird as the Parrot of the ancients; as if the Greeks and Romans went to America to find it. Befides, it is a different fpecies, which we have already defcribed. The Rofe-ringed Parrakeet is fourteen inches long, but of this extent the tail and its two pro- jecting feathers occupy rear two thirds; thefe feathers are of a beryl blue ; all the reft of the plumage is a light foft green, which is rather more vivid on the quills of the wings and mix- ed with yellow on thofe of the tail; a fmall rofe collar clafps the back of the neck and joints with the black of the throat; a bluifh tinge ap- pears on the feathers of the nape of the neck, which recline upon the collar; the*bill is brown red. The LITTLE PARRAKEET, With a Rofe-colourcd Head and long Shafts, SECOND SPECIES, With a long and unequal Tail. PJittacus Erjthrocephalus, Firft Variety, Gmel. PJittacus BtngalenfiSi BrtfT. The Parrakeet Jrom Bengalt Albin. The Rofe-beaded Ring Parrakeet» Lath. /T^His little Parrakeec, which is not more than •^ four inches long, meafures twelve, if the JK 4 two !*i iMfc iiiLirggj. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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