4. ARA. IQl 



8. Ara rubrigena. 

 Ara riibro-genis , Lafresn. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 65; 0. Des Murs, Icon. 



?™:V l - rl <- 1848 ) ! ld - in Casteln. Exped. Am. du Sud, Ois. p 12 

 (18o5). r 



Ara rabr^enys ,Q R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 19 (1849); Hartl. 



Journ. f. Orn. 1867, p. 42. 

 Macrooercua (Aracanga) rubrigenys, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854 



p. 149, n. 11 ; Souance, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856 p 57 

 Sittace rubngenis, Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Comn. Psitt. no 14 • 



Souance, Iconogr. Perr. pi. 3 (1857). 

 Ara rubrigenys, Gr. R. Gr. List Psitt Brit. Mus. p. 29 (1859) 

 Arara rubngena &/,%. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 5 (1864) ; id! 'op. cit. 



Revue, p. 2 (1874). * 



Sittace lafivsnarei , -fW>, Popa^r. i. p. 394 (1867); Gieb. Thes. 



Orn. in. p. 495 (1877). 



Pl 'Jfoi 1 A\ lS rubri S en y s > <?• JZ. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 145, n. 8084 

 (lo/O). 



Ara rubngenis, Sclat.Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotropr. p 111 n 4 

 (18/3) ; ltd. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 634. F ' 



Sittace lafresnavi, Rc/mw Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 269 ((W Psitt. 

 p. 15/) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 75 (1883). 



Adult. Olive-green, head and neck purer green; forehead, 

 crown, a spot behind the ears, smaller upper wing-coverts, bend of 

 the wing, carpal edge, under wing-coverts, axillaries, and thighs 

 orange-red ; feathered lines on the naked lores and cheeks blackish 

 brown; quills, primary-coverts, and bastard wing greyish blue • 

 secondaries tinged with green on the outer web ; greater under 

 wing-coverts olive-yellow ; tail green, bluish towards the tip, quills 

 and tail-feathers underneath golden olive, dusky towards the tip : 

 bill and eet blackish. Total length about 24 inches, wing 12-3 to 

 11-8, tail 14, bill 1-95 to 1-90, tarsus 0-9. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having much less red colour on 

 the crown and ear-coverts, and no red at all on the smaller wing- 

 coverts, bend of the wing, and carpal edge; the under wing-coverts 

 are of a paler orange, and the thighs greenish, tinged with orange. 



Bab. Bolivia. ° 



«, J- Ad. st. Bolivia. C. Brid-es [CI 



c - lmm - sL Massena Coll. ' 



9. Ara severa. 

 Maracana, Marcgr. Hist. Tims. \ x . p. 207 (1648) 

 Brasilian Green Maccaw, Edw, Glean, v. p. 41, p] ->09 (1758) 

 Ara biasiliensis viridis, Briss. Om. iv. p. 198 (1760). 

 Ara brasiliensis eiythrochloi*, Briss. Orn. iv p 202 (1760) 

 Psittacus severus Lmn. S. N. i. p. 140, n. 6 (1766); Scop. Ann I 



ffi&W WVn ] ' G>H -J-, X l P" 31 -- »■ S with var. 8 

 (1788); Lath. 1ml. Orn. 1. p. 86, n. 10 (1790); Shaw, Gen Zool 



\l n - 7' P- 39 ' (1*1 1); Bechst. Kurze Uebers. p. 66, n. 10 (lull) ■ 



S, C T JK 1 ) ut T> p - ^ (ls ? 0); Fo &> Cm '- Ueber «- p- "-•' 



(1831); Neumed, Reise Bras. 1. p. 322, ii. pp. 147, 341 (1820) ; 



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