. A general history of birds . tail covertsblue; quills, and part of the row of feathers next above them,fine sky blue; insides of the wings, and under the tail dirty orange-colour; tail cuneiform, as in the others, of a fine chestnut red,tipped with blue; legs dusky flesh-colour. I suspect this to be the bird mentioned above by Bancroft, asbig as a Maccaw. The bill long, slender, and flesh-coloured;plumage beautiful pea-green; the feathers at the top of the head,and upper edge of the wing red; tail long, composed of green, red,and purple feathers. Said to be frequent at Demerary, and oftento
. A general history of birds . tail covertsblue; quills, and part of the row of feathers next above them,fine sky blue; insides of the wings, and under the tail dirty orange-colour; tail cuneiform, as in the others, of a fine chestnut red,tipped with blue; legs dusky flesh-colour. I suspect this to be the bird mentioned above by Bancroft, asbig as a Maccaw. The bill long, slender, and flesh-coloured;plumage beautiful pea-green; the feathers at the top of the head,and upper edge of the wing red; tail long, composed of green, red,and purple feathers. Said to be frequent at Demerary, and oftento speak distinctly; the name among the natives is Acushi. Mr. Edwards took his description from a living specimen. Wehave since seen a similar one, preserved on paper, at the late TaylorWhites, Esq. done by his daughter, in the manner described by , in his History of Birds, and on Mr. Whites death,became part of the Leverian Collection. * Buffon will have it to be a Variety of his Ara-Tert.—Hist. p. 201. FLAXI. PARROT, 107 5 —RED AND YELLOW MACCAW. Pl. XXI. LENGTH three feet at least. Bill two inches and a half, in astrait line from point to base, but taken circularly above three inches;depth of both mandibles at the base two inches and a half; colourpale yellow oker; sides of the head, including the eye, bare and pale,reaching quite to the under mandible; head, neck, back, wingcoverts, and all beneath to the vent scarlet ; second quills, and someof the coverts above them fine deep yellow ; prime quills dusky rosecolour, paler towards the ends ; shafts of all the quills white ; lowerpart of the back, rump, upper and under tail coverts rose-colouredwhite; the tail greatly cuneiform, the two middle feathers twentyinches long, the shortest or outer one six inches, the next eight, thethird ten inches ; the six middle ones scarlet, the others pale buff red,growing pale yellowish white towards the ends, but the shafts of allare white ; the quills when closed reach
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