128 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Ara] chloroptera Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 111. — Sharpe, 



Hand-list, ii, 1900, 13. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 



1897, 10 (Brazil). 

 Macrocercus chloropterus Finsch, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., i, 1863, p. ix (Brazil). 

 Arara chloroptera Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, no. 26 (Psittaci), 1864, 3; no. 38 



(Revue), 1874, 2. 

 Sittace chloroptera Finsch, Die Papag., i, 1867, 403.— Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 



pp. 255, lii. — Reichenow, Vogelbild., 1879, pi. 9, fig. 4; Journ. fiir Orn., 



1881, 267 (monogr.). 

 [Sittace] chloroptera Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1870, 445. — Heine and Reichenow, 



Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 235 (Brazil). 

 Ara ruana Prevost, Orn. Exot., [1861?], pi. 29. 

 {?)Ara chloroptera major Bertoni, Aves Nuevas de Paraguay, 1901, 52 (Alto 



Parana, Paraguay; see Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, 452. — Arribalzaga, Ann. Mus. 



Nac. Buenos Aires, vii, 1902, 344. 



ARA MACAO (Linnaeus). 



RED, BLTJE, AND YELLOW MACAW. 



Adults (sexes aWke). — Head, neck, back, scapulars, lesser wing- 

 coverts, greater part of tail, and under parts, including under wing- 

 coverts, clear scarlet vermilion, deeper on under parts, which incline 

 to deep poppy red; shafts of rec trices horn color; middle and prox- 

 imal greater wing-coverts orange-yellow (between chrome and deep 

 chrome yellow), some of them, occasionally, with a terminal spot of 

 dull greenish blue or bluish green; the outermost (distal) ones usually 

 more or less tinged with greenish, outer (distal) greater coverts, alula, 

 primary coverts, and remiges uniform dull cobalt blue, the inner sec- 

 ondaries (tertials) more or less tinged with green; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform azure blue; under tail-coverts pale grayish blue 

 (nearly flax-flower blue) passing into vinaceous-pinkish basally; under 

 surface of tail red, passing into dull grayish brown or olive on tips of 

 rectrices and for some distance thence along edges ; under surface of 

 remiges red for half (approximately) next to shaft, dull purplish 

 brown on inner half, passing into dusky distally, the inner webs of 

 primaries edged with yellowish proximally; maxilla mostly pale 

 brownish yellow (pale flesh color or dull pinkish white in life) ; man- 

 dible, tip of maxilla, and a triangular area on lower basal portion of 

 maxilla, black; iris pale yellow; bare skin of head pale flesh color or 

 pinkish white in life, legs and feet dusky grayish or blackish. 



Adult waZe.— Length (skins), 742-920 (841); wing, 355-425 

 (394.1); tail, 387-598 (549.4); culmen, 62-73.5 (69.4); tarsus, 33.5-38 

 (35.7); outer anterior toe, 39.5-49.5 (45. 8). « 



o Eight specimens. 



