4. ARA. 153 



Arara ararauna, Brehm, Mon. d. Papag, t. 7 (1842) ; Schley. Mm. 



P.-B. Psittaci, p. 4 ( 1804) ; id. op. cit. Revue, p. 2 (1874). 

 Macrocercua (Ararauna) ararauna, Bp. Rev. et May. de Zuol. 1854, 



p. 149, n. 4 ; Souanci, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, p. 57. 

 Ararauna ararauna, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 144, n. 8075 (1870). 

 Ara militaris, Salv. $ Godm. (nee Linn.) Ibis, 1880, p. 176 (Ari- 



hueca). 

 Sittace cajrulea, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 266 (C'onsj). Psitt. 



p. 154) ; id. Voyelbild, Bericht. Taf. ii. f. 1 (1883). 



Adult. Upper parts and under tail-coverts blue, in some lights 

 greenish; forehead and vertex olive-green ; cheeks naked, lores and 

 upper parts of the cheeks with a few lines of dark green feathers; 

 edge of the cheeks and chin black, the lower feathers of the chin 

 greenish ; car-coverts, sides of the neck, breast, abdomen, and under 

 wing-coverts yellow-orange; quills and tail-feathers blue above, 

 golden olive-yellow below : naked skin of the cheeks, lores, and cere 

 dusky flesh-colour ; iris greenish grey or pale yellow ; bill black ; 

 feet blackish. Total length about 31 inches, wing 14*3, tail about 

 12, bill 1-6-1 -3, tarsus M. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hub. Tropical America from Panama to Bolivia and Guiana, and 

 the whole valley of the Amazons. 



a. Ad. sk. Chepo, Isthmus of Panama. Salviu-Godinan Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Arihueca, March (Simons). Salvin-Godinan Coll! 



c. d. Ad.sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 

 e. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (BwMaf). Sclater Coll. 



/. Ad. st. British Guiana (Schomburgk). Royal Geographical 



Society [P.J. 

 y. Ad. sk. Mexiana, Dec. ( Wallace). Sclater Coll. 



It. Ad. st. South America. Purchased. 



i. Skeleton (without skull). 

 /,. Skeleton. 

 /. Skull. 



2. Ara caninde. 



Caninde, Azara, Apunt. Hist. Hat. Paraguay, i. p. 400 (1802)- id. 



Voy. (Sonn. ed.) iii. ]>. 52 (1809"). 

 Macrocercus ararauna, part., Vieill. N. D. ii. p. 260 (1816) (Para- 

 guay); id. Enc. Mith. p. 1417 (partim) (1823); Burm. Syst. Ueb. 



ii. p. 157 (partim) ( L856). 

 Sittace caninde, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 674 (1832) (ex Azara); 



Fmsch, Papag. i. p. 413 (1867) ; Gieb. T/ies. Orn. iii. p 494' 



(1877). 

 Ara caninde, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 412, n. 2 (1846) ; llartl. Syst. 



1ml. Asar. Apunt. p. 17 (1847); Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp 



Psitt. (?); Q. 11. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 27 (1869) ; Sdat. 



$ Salv. Nomend. Av. Neotrop. i>. Ill, n. 10 (1873): Berl. Joum 

 f. Om. 1887, p. 121. 

 ftUcrocercus (Ararauna) caninde, Bp. Bee et Mag. de Zool 1854 



p. L40, n. 5. 

 Ararauna caninde, G. R. Gr. Hand-list. ii. y. 1 14, n. 8076 | 1870). 

 Sittace azane. Rchnw. .hunt. f. Orn. 1881, p. 267 (Oonsp Psitt 



p. 165) ; iii. VogeUnld. Nachtr. 78(1883). 



