162 PSITTAOID^. 



id. Beitr. iv. p. 155 (1832) ; Hahn, Orn. Atl., Papag. p. 72, t. 53 



(1836). 

 L'Ara verd du BriSsil, B 1 Anient. PI. Enl. 383. 

 L'Ara vert, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 194 (1779). 

 Brasilian Green Maccaw, Lath. Sun. i. p. 208, n. 9 (1781) ; id. Suppl. 



i. p. 58 (1787) ; id. Gen. Hist. ii. p. 112 (1822). 

 L'Ara Maracana, Levaill. Pen-, pi. 8, pi. 10 (var.) (1801). 

 Macrocercus severus, Vieill. N. I), ii. p. 263 (1816) ; id. Enc. Meth. 



iii. p. 1419 (1823) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 113 (1826) ; Less. Tr. 



d'Orn. p. 186 (1831); Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 160 (1856) ; Finsch, 



Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. i. Eerigt. p. xiv (1863) ; Gulliv. P. Z. S. 



1875, p. 489. 

 Arara severus, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 28 (1824) ; Brehm, Mori. d. 



Papag. t. 11 (with var.) (1842). 

 Sittace severa, Wagl. Man. Psitt. p. 666 (1832) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. 



de Zool. 1854, p. 150, n. 15 ; SouancS, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1856, p. 57 ; Bp. Naumannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 10 ; Finsch, 



Papag. i. p. 417 (1867), ii. p. 944 (1868) ; Sousa, Mus. Nac. 



Lisboa, Psittaci, p. 8 (1869) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras, pp. 255, Hi (1871) ; 



Gieb. The*. Orn. iii. p. 497 (1877) ; Rchnw. Vogelbild. t. ix. f. 3 



(1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 268 (Consp. Psitt. p. 156). 

 Ara severa, G. B. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 412, n. 8 (1845) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 



1855, p. 162, 1857, p. 266; G. B. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. 



p. 28 (1859) ; Homey. Journ. f. Orn. 1859, p. 360 ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. 



1860, p. 91 ; Sclat. Cat. Am. B. p. 345, n. 2059 (1862) ; Lawr. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 474 (1862) ; Sclat. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, 



p. 197, 1867, p. 979 ; Salv. Lbis, 1871, pp. 87, 91 ; Sclat. $ Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 299; iid. Nomencl, Av. Neotrop. p. Ill, n. 11 



(1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 538, 634 ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 464 (1882); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1884, pp. 604, 615; Berl. 



8? Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 573 ; Salv. Lbis, 1886, p. 66 ; Tacz. 



Orn. Per. iii. p. 194, Table, p. 99 (1886); Allen, Bull. Am. 



Mus. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 104 (1889) ; Garlepp, Journ. f. Om. 1889, 



p. 290 ; Ber/epsch, Journ. f. Orn. 1889, p. 313. 

 Ara castaneifrons, Lafr. Bev. de Zool. 1847, p. 66. 

 Conurus severus, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 729 (1848). 

 Macrocercus ( Aracanga) castaneifrons, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, 



p. 149, n. 12. 

 Arara severa, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 6 (1864) ; id. op. cit. 



Revue, p. 2 (1874). 

 Primolius severus, G. R. Gr. Hatid-list, ii. p. 145, n. 8082 (1870). 



Adult nude. Green, head washed with blue ; forehead, margin 

 of the cheeks, and chin chestnut-brown ; feathered lines on the 

 cheeks black ; quills and primary-coverts blue ; quills edged with 

 black at the tip ; secondaries edged with green on the outer webs ; 

 the tertials entirely green ; carpal edge and outermost smaller 

 under wing-coverts red, the remainder green ; greater under wing- 

 coverts dull olive ; tail-feathers above reddish brown, edged with 

 green towards the base and tipped with blue ; quills and tail- 

 feathers underneath dark golden red : naked skin of the sides of 

 the head whitish flesh-colour ; iris yellow ; bill and feet black. 

 Total length about 20 inches, wing 9-8, tail 10, bill 1-6, tarsus 0-8. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hab. Brazil, the Amazons Valley to Bolivia, Guiana, Colombia, 

 and Panama. 



