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Islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique (also Dominica ?) j'* Lesser 

 Antilles. (Extinct.) 



Ara guadeloupensis Clark (A. H.), Auk, xxii, July, 1905, 272, 348 (based on Ara 

 Dutertre, Hist. Gen. Isles des Cliristopliie, de la Guadeloupe, etc., 294; 

 Labat, Nouv. Voy. Isles de I'Amerique, etc., ii, 211; Buffon, Hist. Nat.Ois., 

 vi, 181, part; (?)i'J.ra rouge Daubenton, PI. Col., pl. 12; Brisson, Orn., 

 iv, 183, part; The red and blue macaw Edwards, Birds, iv, 158, part; Latham, 

 Gen. Hist. Birds, ii, 302, part\— Salvadori, Ibis., 1906, 452 (crit.). 



Ara guadaloupensis Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905 (Nov. 1), 15; 

 Extinct Birds, 1907, 54. 



ARA MILITARIS MEXICANA Ridgway. 



MEXICAN GREEN MACAW. 



Similar to A. m. militaris,^ but larger. 



Adults {sexes alike). — General color yellowish parrot green, passing 

 into paris green on hindneck, sides of neck, occiput, and crown, the 

 wing-coverts and secondaries inclining to oil green or yellowish olive- 

 green; forehead and lores bright poppy red; lines of small feathers 

 across naked suborbital region blacldsh brown, the naked malar and 

 mental areas bordered with dark reddish brown; rump and tail- 

 coverts clear turquoise blue; alulre, primary coverts, distal greater 

 coverts, distal secondaries, and primaries greenish cerulean blue, the 

 primaries more purplish blue along both sides of shafts, the latter 

 black; middle pair of rectrices dull brov/nish red, passing, through 

 dull greenish, into light dull greenish blue on distal portion, or the blue 

 abruptly succeeding the red; second pair similar but with the distal 

 blue more extended, the remaining rectrices with the red confined to 

 outer webs (replaced on inner webs with a more olivaceous hue) , and 

 the red of outer web more and more restricted until the outermost 

 rectrix is wholly blue on outer web; under surface of wings (except 

 smaller coverts) and tail deep oHve-yellov/ changing to almost golden 

 yellow in certain lights; biU horn color terminally darkening into 

 nearly black basally; iris yellow; naked skin of face and chin deep 

 rosy flesh color or carmine-pink in life; legs and feet grayish dusky. 



Young. — Very similar in coloration to adults, but scapulars and 

 smaller wing-coverts rather distinctly margined with paler green, 

 middle rectrices margined terminally with pale grayish yellowish or 

 dull whitish, middle malar region and adjacent portion of throat more 

 brownish, and green of under parts slightly paler and more yellowish. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 650-728 (692); wing, 363-400 

 (385.5); tail, 426-435 (432); culmen, 56-63 (62.7); tarsus, 33.5-36.5 

 (34.8); outer anterior toe, 42-44.5 (43.4).'' 



« The bird formerly occiirring on the island of Dominica has been named, by Austin 

 Hobart Clark, Ara ahvoodi (Clark, Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 310, in text; based on de- 

 scription in Atwood's History of the Island of Dominica, 1791). 



& See p. 122. 



<= Four specimens. 



