BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 125 



Sittace caerulea Reichenow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 266 (ararauna rejected on 



grounds of purism); Consp. Psitt., 1882, 154; Vogelbild., 1883, Bericht. 



pi. 2, fig. 1. 

 Ara macao (not Psittacus macao Linnseus) Prevost, Ois. Exot., [1861], pi. 30. 

 Ara militaris (not Psittacus militanis Linnaeus) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 



176 (Arihueca, Santa Marta, Colombia). 

 Ara arauna Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 311 (Rio Claro, Rio Tiet6, 



Rio Verde, etc., Brazil). 



ARA MARTINICA (Rothschild.) « 



MARTINIQUE MACAW. 



"Upper surface and head blue, chest and rest of under surface 

 orange." (Rothschild.) 



Island of Martmique, Lesser Antilles. (Extinct.) 



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

 Nov. 1, 1905, 14 (I\fartinique, Lesser Antilles; ex P^re Jacques Bouton, 

 Rel. de I'^stabllss. d. Frangais dep. 1635, en I'ile Martinique, 1640, 71, 72). — 

 Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, 451. 



Ara ararauna (not Psittacus ararauna Linnseus?) Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, 451 (crit.). 



Ara martinicus Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, 53, pi. 14. 



ARA ERYTHRURA Rothschild. 



RED-TAILED BLUE AND YELLOW MACAW. 



Head, hindneck, and back ''satiny sky blue; " under parts (includ- 

 ing under wing-coverts) yellow; tail red. 



One of the West Indian Islands, but the particular one unknown. 

 (Extinct.) 



Anadorhynchus coeruleus (not Psittacus caeruleus Gmelin) Rothschild, Bull. Brit. 



Orn. Club, xvi, no. cxvui, Nov. 1, 1905, 15 ("Jamaica"). 

 Ara erythrura Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, 54, pi. 15 ("one of the West 



Indian Islands;" based on DeRochefort, Hist. Nat. & Mor. des Isles Antilles, 



etc., 1658, 154, Art. ix, Des Arras). 



ARA CHLOROPTERA Gray. 



RED, BLTTE, AND GREEN MACAW. 



Much like A. macao but larger (expeciaUy the biU) ; bare loral and 

 suborbital regions with lines of short feathers; middle wing-coverts 

 and posterior scapulars green instead of yeUow; remiges greenish 

 cerulean blue instead of violaceous cobalt blue; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts light greenish blue; red of head, neck, etc., darker, and 

 distal portion of rectrices, together with greater part of lateral rec- 

 trices, greenish blue. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Head, neck, and under parts bright poppy 

 red (nearly carmine on under parts); back, anterior scapulars, and 

 lesser wing-coverts dull crimson, the feathers more or less distinctly 

 margined terminally with yellowish green; posterior scapulars, 

 middle wing-coverts, and proximal greater coverts yellowish green 



o This is evidently related to and possibly identical with A. ararauna. 



