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ANODORHYNCHUS PURPURASCENS Rothschild. 



GUADELOUPE VIOLET MACAW. 



"Entirely violet. Native name of tlie Caraibes 'Onecouli.' ""■ 

 Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. (Extinct.) 



Anadorhynchus purpurascens Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, no. cxviii, 

 Nov. 1, 1905, 13 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; ex Don de Navaret, Eel. Voy. 

 Christ. Colombe, ii, 1838, 425). 



Anodorhynchus purpurascens Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, 55, pi. 13. — Sal- 

 VADORi, Ibis, 1906, 451. 



Genus ARA Lacepede. 



Ara Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., 1799, 1. (Type, Psittacus macao Linnaeus.) 

 Paracus Rafinesque, Analyse de Nature, 1815, 65. (New name for "Ara La- 



c6p[ede]. ") 

 Paranus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 144. (Error for Paracus Rafinesque.) 

 Macrocercu^ & Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 70. (Type, Psittacus macao Linnaeus.) 

 Macrocircus (emendation) Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 299. 

 Sittace Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 499. (Type, Psittacus ararauna Linnaeus.) 

 Arara Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 25. (Type, PsiWaots macao Linnaeus.) 

 Araclanga c Gloger, Gem. Hand-u. Hilfsbuch der Naturg., Bd. 1, 1842, 193. 



(New name for Ara Cuvier on ground of purism.) 

 Ararauna Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 149. (Type, Psittacus ara- 

 rauna Linnaeus.) 

 Aracanga Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 149. (Type, Psittacus aracanga 



Gmelin=P. macao Linnaeus.) 

 Primolius Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliv, 1857, 596. (Type, Sittace primoli 



Bonaparte =^rara auricollis Cassin.) 

 Macao S. D. W., Analyst, iii, no. xiv, Jan., 1836, 212. (Type, M. splendens= 

 Psittacus ararauna Linnaeus?.) 



Medium-sized to very large long-tailed Psittacidse (length about 

 390-800 mm.) with sides of head mostly naked, width of chisel-like 

 tip to mandible equal to not more than one- third the length of gonys, 

 and with parti-colored plumage (at least yeUow or red, usually green 

 also, being present in addition to blue). 



BiU moderate to enormously large, its depth at base equal to nearly 

 the length of cuhnen ^ (sometimes more) , its greatest width equal to 

 more than half its depth at base; culmen nearly as long as to much 

 longer than middle toe with claw, very regularly and strongly de- 

 curved from base, broadly rounded or (sometimes) slightly flattened 

 proxunaUy; maxillary unguis variable, sometimes rather thick and 

 obtuse, sometimes compressed, attenuated, and acute (though 



a Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 13. 



& "MaKpoKepKos, praelongam caudam habens." (Vieillot.) 



c 'Apa (Ara); KXayyri, screaming. (Richmond.) 



d In all cases, measurements of curved surfaces or Lines represent the chord and 

 not the curve ; that is to say the distance in a straight line between the extreme points, 

 as when taken by dividers. 



