i40 BULLETIN" 50, UFITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Shanusi near Yurimaguas, e. Peru); No"vit. Zool., xv, 1908, 284 (Cayenne). — 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 161; Il)is, 1906, 453.— Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1897, 569 (Lion Hill, Panama; 

 mouth of Rio Nercua, Colombia; etc.). — Holmberg, Segundo Censo Argen- 

 tina, 1898, 513. — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 

 1900, 24 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuador). — Berlepsch and Hartert, 

 Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 107 (Caicara, etc., Orinoco Valley, Venezuela). — • 

 Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv, 1904, 448 (Rio Jurua, Amazonas, Brazil). — 

 (?)Clark (A. H.), Auk, xxii, 1905, 347 (Jamaica?).— Hellmayr, Abh. K. B. 

 Ak. Wiss., ii Kl., xxu Bd., iii Abt., 1905, 578 (crit.); Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 

 85 (Teffe, Brazil).— Hagmann, Zool. Jahrb., 1907, 39 (Mexiana Island, 

 lower Amazon). 



[Ai-a] sevcra Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H., vii, 1862, 474 (Lion Hill, Panama). — 

 Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 111. — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 

 1900, 14. 



Araseverus Descourtilz, Orn. Br^s., 1854- '56, pi. 6, lower fig. 



C[onun(,s] severus Cabanis, in Schomburgh's Reise Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 729. 



Ara castancifrons Lapresnaye, Rev. Zool., x, March, 1847, 66 (Bolivia; type now 

 in coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila.?). 



MacTocercus {Aracanga) castaneifrons BoTstw arte, Rev. etMag. deZool., 1854, 149. 



ARA ERYTHROCEPHALA Rothschild. 



RED-HEADED GREEN MACAW. 



"Head red, rest of body bright green. Wings and greater coverts 

 blue. Tail above scarlet and blue, under side of tail and wings 

 intense orange-yellow." (Rothschild.) 



Island of Jamaica ("Mountains of Trelawny and St. Anne's.''). 

 (Extinct.) « 



Ara erythrocephala Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, no. cxviii, Nov. 1, 1905, 

 14 (mountains of Trelawny and St. Anne's, Jamaica; ex Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 

 1847, 261, 262;^; Extinct Birds, 1907, 53, pi. 12.— Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, 452 

 (description). 



Ara militaris (not Psittacus inilitaris Linnajus) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 261. 



Genus RHYNCHOPSITTA Bonaparte. 



Rhynchopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. etMag. de Zool., (2) \-i, 1854, 149 (Consp. Psitt., 



p. 6). (Type, Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson.) 

 Rhynchopsittacus (emendation) Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 168. 



Medium-sized cuneate-tailed Psittacidae (length about 375 mm.) 

 with relatively very large and greatly compressed bill, completely 

 feathered cere, sides of head (except orbital region) completely feath- 

 ered, tail much shorter than wing and graduated for only about one- 

 third its length, and with longest primaries exceeding distal secon- 

 daries by nearly half the length of wing; color green, with red 

 forehead, supercihary region, anterior margin of wing, and thighs, 

 greater under wing-coverts yellow, and under surface of remiges 

 and rectrices blackish. 



o "Procured by 'Mr. White, proprietor of the Oxford Estate." 



