Page 53

( 53 )
CH AP.
XXVI.
PLA. 236.
2ihe Little Red-winged Parrakeet.
P   HE    bird, which is here reprefented
T   of its natural fize, is remarkable for
being the fmalleft of the long-tailed Par-
rots, that I have yet feen.
The bill is formed much like thofe in
the other Parrots, and of a light flefh-
colour: the iris of the eye is of a very
dark hazel-colour; fo that it appears al-
moft black, (contrary to the common co-
lour in the eyes of Parrots, which is
golden or yellow :) the eye is placed in
a plat of bare fkin of a wvhitifih colour.
Immediately beneath the bill it hath a little
fpot of fine red or fcarlet feathers; the
remainder of the head and neck is of a
full grafs-green colour, as are the back,
rump, and tail: the greater quills are of
a dark green colour: all the covert-feathers
of the wings are of a re3difh colour, ex-
cept the finialler feathers round the ridges
of the wings, which are green: the
breaft, belly, thighs, and covert-feathers
beneath the tail, are of a lighter green,
and more inclining to yellow, than thofe
on the upper fide of the bird: the legs and
f et are of a light flefh-colour  the toes are
(iifoofed as in other Parrots.
IThis bird was (anno   73n3) the pro-
perty of my good Patron the late Sir Hans
Sloane, Baronet,   at whofe   houfe,  in
London, I drew it for him, and by his
perinifflion made a draught alo for my own
ufe.  I can find no defcription that will
agree wvith this bird ; therefore believe it
to be a non-defcript: not that I can abfo-
La petite Perruche a l'aile rouge.
Ofrau, qu'on voit ici reprefenti de fa
Egrandeur naturelle, e0? remarquable te
ce qu i/ _'/ le plus petit des Perroquets a' longce
queuW, que j/aye encore via.
Le bee, qui efi d'unie couleur de chair pale,
eJf aJf'z ferb/able d'ailleurs a' celui des au-
tres Perroqucts: l'iris des )'CUX eji d Az noi-
fet/e Ji jonce', qu'il paroit prejgue noir, ait
liieu que les Perroquets ont conmmunelnentles
yeuix jazunes, o'i coulcur d'or  /'ocil cf place'
dans un ccrcle de peau ra/e blanchntre: il
y a jur la go;ge ilmne'liatenent aude/ious di
bec une petite tac/be dun beau rouge, oil e'ar-
late: le ric de da la t/e et du cozc e, aizlji biea
que le dos, le croupion et la queu, dJun gros
-oert de prc: les pennes font d'un vertfincei:
toutes Aes p/un'cs de couvertures des ailes font
rougeatres, excepte les p/us pet ites plumes
autcuzr du bord des ailes, qui font vertes:
L'teiomiach, le -uenre, les czqißs, et les plumes
9q11 couvrceit le Ijous ! la qveui;, font d'un
tvert plus clair et plues tirant fur le jaune,
que n/c   le deps de l'oiJeau : les jambes et
les pattes font d'une coil/eur de chair pale:
les doigts joiit dffoofis comme dans les autres
Perroyziets.
Cet   /'i app artenoit, en I733, a     i/tOn
Proteclf ur bin/afitif/at le Cbdevalier Hans
Sloane, chcez qui je le de/inai pour lui, et
me permit d'en tirer en mrnclue temps uine
CO/ic p    Olr mon0i u/age.  ye nu'ai pi trouver
JZu1ues- itCi aicuni'c, defi cption q9'i fi iappor-
tat a cet oi/laui ; ce qia nit fjait ucr oi  Z Y C i
eji de ccux qui n'ont point encore cte dt'crits.
P.