150 psittacld^:. 



3. CYANOPSITTACUS. _, 



Type. 

 Macrocercus, subgen. Cyanopsitta, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de 



Zool. 1854, p. 149 . . . . C. spixi. 



Range. Province of Bahia. 



1. Cyanopsittacus spixi. 



Arara hyacinthinus, Spiv (nee Lath.), Av. Bras. i. p. 25 (1824). 

 Ara hyacintkinus, Spiv (nee Lath ), Av. Bras. i. tab. xxiii. (1824). 

 Sittace spixii, Waql. Mon. Psitt. p. 675 (1832) ; Finsch, Papag. 



i. p. 393 (1867), ii. 2, p. 942 (1868) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 254 (note) 



(1871); Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 497 (1877); Rehnw. Journ. f. 



Orn. 1881, p. 266 (Consp. Psitt. p. 154) ; id. Vogelbild. Xachtr. 72 



(1883). 

 Psittacus hyacinthinus, Hahn (nee Lath.), Orn. Atl., Papag. p. 40, 



t. 25 (1834). 

 Psittacara glauca minor, var. A, Bourj. Pen: pi. 15 (1837-38). 

 Arara hyacinthiacus, Brehm, Mon. d. Papag. t. 6 (1842). 

 Ara spixii, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 412, n. 13 (1845) ; id. List 



Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 30 (1859) ; Sdat. if Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotrop. p. Ill (1873) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 976, pi. lxi.,1879, 



pp. 300, 551 ; Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 316 ; P Garhpp, Journ. f. Orn. 



1889, p. 290. 

 Macrocercus (Cyanopsitta) spixi, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 



p. 149, n. 3 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, pp. 56, 57. 

 Arara spixi, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. no. 4 ; G. R. Gr. 



Hand-list, ii. p. 145, n. 8089 (1870). 

 Macrocercus spixii, Burm. Sgst. Ueb. ii. p. 160 (1856). 



Adult male. General colour blue, head and neck greyish blue, 

 forehead and ear-coverts more grey ; feathers of the back and rump, 

 upper and under tail-coverts, and upper wing-coverts with narrow 

 paler edges ; breast and abdomen with a slight greenish tinge, each 

 feather with paler edges ; inner web of the quills, greater under 

 wing-coverts, quills and tail-feathers underneath blackish : iris light 

 yellow ; naked skin round the eyes (and naked lores) black (Sclater) ; 

 bill black; feet blackish. Total length about 22 inches, wing 11, 

 tail 13-5, bill 1-4, tarsus 0-8. 



Female. Like the male, only somewhat smaller. 



Hab. Kio San Francisco, prov. of Bahia (Spix). 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil. Massena Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Brazil (Zool. Soc. Gard.). Sclater Coll. 



Ara, Cuv. Lee. d'Anat. Comp. tab. ii. (1799) A. macao. 



Paracus, Rajinesque, Analyse, p. 65 (1813). 



Macrocercus, Vieill. Analyse, pp. 26, 70 (1816) A. macao. 



Arara, Spiv, Av. Bras. i. p. 23 (1824) ( = Ara, Cuv.); 



Schley. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 1 (1864). 

 Sittace, part., Wa</1. Mon. Psitt. p. 499 (1832). 

 Macrocircus, Sic. Class. B. ii. p. 2t»9 (1837). 

 ArHclanga, Gloq. Hand- u. Hilfsbuch der Naturg, p 193 



(1842) ( = Ara). 



