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Macrocercus tricolor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ii, 1816, 262; Tabl. Enc. 



Meth., iii, 1823, 1418.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 186, pi. 18, fig. 1.— 



Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., 1856, 105 (Cuba). — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Gundlach, Joum. fur Om., 1871, 277; 1874, 163 



(liabits); Contr. Om. Cuba, 1876, 126, 276. 

 [Macrocercus] tricolor Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., 1861, 336; Repert. Fisico Nat. 



Cuba, i, 1866, 297. 

 S[ittace] tricolor Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 669, 733. 

 Sittace tricolor Finsch, Die Papag., i, 1867, 409. — Reichenow, Journ. fiir Om., 



1881, 268 (monogr.); Consp. Psitt., 1882, 156; Vogelbild., 1883, Nachtr., 



74. — Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55. 

 M[acrodrcus] tricolor Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 299. 

 Ara tricolor D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 161. — Finsch, 



NederL Tijdscbr. Dierk., i, 1863, Beright., p. xiv.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 



454, part (Cuba); Biids West Ind., 1889, 177, part (Cuba); Cat. West Ind. 



Birds, 1892, 101, 128, part (Cuba; Isle of Pines).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 157; Ibis, 1906, 452.— Gundlach, Om. Cubana, ed. 



1895, 151.— Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15 (extinct); 



Extinct Birds, 1907, 51, pi. 10. — Bangs and Z.utey, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 



200 (last one shot on Isle of Pines about 1864). — Clark (A. H.), Auk, xxii, 



1905, 347, 348, part (Cuba; extinct). 

 A[ra\ tricolor Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 412. 

 [Ara] tricolor Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 145, no. 8083. — Sclater and Salvin, 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 111, part (Cuba).— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885 



(and rev. ed., 1886), 20, part (Cuba).— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 13.— 



Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 10 ("Mexico"). 

 Macrocercus (Aracanga) tricolor Lembeye, Aves de la Isle de Cuba, 1850, 132. — 



Bonaparte. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 149. — Souance, Rev. et Mag. de 



Zool., 1856, 57.— Finsch, Nederl. Tijdschr., Dierk., 1863, p. xiv ("S. A_m."). 

 Arara tricolor Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, 3. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, 



no. 26 (Psittaci), 1864, 4; no. 38 (Revue), 1874, 2. 

 Macrocercus aracanga Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ii, 1816, 258, part (cites 



Petit Ara rouge Daubenton, PI. Ent., 641). 



ARA GOSSEI Rothschild. 



GOSSE'S MACAW. 



"Forehead, crown, and back of neck bright yellow, sides of face, 

 anterior and lateral parts of neck and back bright scarlet, wing- 

 coverts and breast deep blood-red, winglet and primaries light blue, 

 tail red and yellow. Basal liaK of the upper mandible black, apical 

 half ash-colored; lower mandible black, tip only ash-colored. Legs 

 and feet said to have been black." (Rothschild.) 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles (''mountains of Hanover Par- 

 ish, about ten miles east of Lucea"). (Extinct.)" 



Ara tricolor (not Psittacus tricolor Bechstein) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 260.— 

 Albrecht, Joum. fiir Om., 1862, 202 (Jamaica).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 454, 

 part (Jamaica); Birds West Ind., 1889, 177, part (Jamaica); Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 101, 128, part (Jamaica). — Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XX, 1891, 157, part. (Jamaica) ; Ibis, 1906 453 (description). — Clark, Auk, 

 xxii, 1905, 348, part (Jamaica). 



A[ra] tricolor Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 110. 



Ara tricolor'^ Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 129 (Jamaica; extinct). 



» "Specimen shot about 1765, by Mr. Odell." 



