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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Ara] tricolor Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 111, part (Jamaica).— 



Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885 (and rev. ed., 1886), 20, part (Jamaica). 

 Ara gossei Rothschild, BulL Brit. Om. Club, xvi, no. cxviii, Nov. 1, 1905, 



14 (mts. of Hanover Parish, about 10 miles east of Lucea, Jamaica— extinct; 



based on Yellow-headed Macaw Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 260); Extinct 



Birds, 1907, 52, pi. 11. 

 Ara gossii Sclater, Rev. List Birds Jamaica, 1910, 12. 



ARA SEVERA (Linnaeus). 



SEVERE MACAW. 



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

 (or between bice green and oil green), the pileum, hindneck, and 

 auricular region (especially the first) more bluish green (verdigris 

 green); forehead (rather narrowly) dark brownish red (dark claret 

 brown or bay), the feathers bordering naked skin of anterior malar 

 region and chin intermixed or suffused with the same; primary cov- 

 erts and primaries greenish blue (deep turquoise) , the latter broadly 

 margined terminally with black; middle pair of rectrices dull brown- 

 ish red medially, green laterally, the distal portion greenish blue; 

 other rectrices similar, but the reddish mostly confined to inner 

 webs, the outermost with outer web almost wholly blue; under wing- 

 coverts and margin of wing rich geranium red, with a central area of 

 green; under primary coverts grayish brown strongly suffused with 

 wine red; under surface of primaries dull grayish wine red, the under 

 surface of tail similar but more decidedly wine-reddish; lower por- 

 tion of thighs partly red; bill brownish black, more horn colored 

 terminally; iris golden yellow or orange; naked skin of face and chin 

 pale (whitish in life) ; legs and feet grayish dusky or blackish. 



Adult male. —Length, (skms), 410-474 (447) ; wing, 226-250 (240.5) ; 

 tail, 230-270 (243.2); culmen, 37.5-43.5 (40.4); tarsus, 21.5-23.5 

 (22.3); outer anterior toe, 30-34.5 (31.4).'^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 398-457 (443); wing, 230-246 

 (235.7); tail, 224-248 (234.7); culmen, 36.5-41.5 (38.2); tarsus, 

 22-24 (22.6); outer anterior toe, 27.5-33 (30.7).^ 



