166 psittacid^:. 



Psittacus makavouanna, Lath, Ind. Orn. i. p. 84, n. 6 (1790) ; Shaiv, 

 Gen. Zool. viii. 2, p. 398 (1811) ; Bechst. Kurze Ueb. p. 66 (1811- 



12) ; Vieill. N. D. xxv. p. 361 (1817) ; id, Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1396 



(1823) ; Voigt, Cuv. Ueb. p. 725 (1831). 

 L'Ara rnacavouamie, Levaill. Perr. pi. 7 (1801). 

 L'Ara maracana femelle, Levaill. Perr. pi. 7 (1801). 

 Macrocercus makavouana, Vieill. N. I). ii. p. 260 (1816); id. Enc. 



Meth. iii. p. 1418 (1823) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 113 (1826) ; 



Burm. Sijst. Ueb. ii. p. 162 (note) (1856). 

 Arara makawuana, Spue, Ac. Bras. i. p. 28 (1824) ; BreJim, Mon. d. 



Papaff. t. 10 (1842). 

 Sittace macavuanna, Waql. Mon. Psitt, p. 664 (1832); Pelz. Orn. 



Bras. pp. 255, Iii (1871). 

 Ara makawuanna, G. R. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 412, n. 9 (1845) ; Bartl. 



P. Z. S. 1882, p. 374 (Eastern Peru). 

 Conurus macavuana, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. i. p. 249, ii. p. 16, iii. 



p. 729, n. 285(1848). 

 Sittace niakawauna, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool, 1854, p. 150, n. 17 ; 



Souanc6, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1856, p. 57 ; Bp. Naumannia, 1856, 



Consp. Psitt. v. 12. 

 Ara manilata, G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mas. p. 27 (1859). 

 Primolius makawauna, Bp.,Jide G. R. Gr. I. c. {in syn. Ara? manilata?) 



(1859). 

 Arara manilata, S-hleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, p. 7 (1864) ; id. op. cit. 



Revue, p. 2 (1874). 

 Sittace macavuana, Finsch, Papag. i. p. 415 (1867) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 586 ; Gieb. The.*. Orn. iii. p. 496 (1877). 

 Primolius manilata, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 144, n. 8078 (1870). 

 Sittace modesta, Rchnw. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 270 (Consp. Psitt. 



p. 158) ; id. Vogelbild. Nachtr. 77 (1883). 

 Ara macuvuana, Salv. Lbis, 1886, p. 67. 



Adult. Green, with an olive tinge on the neck, back, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and lower parts ; pileum greenish blue ; lower part of 

 the cheeks bluish green ; chin, throat, and upper breast grey, with 

 the feathers edged with green ; a brown-red patch covering the 

 middle of the lower abdomen and the vent ; feathers of the thighs 

 green, edged with brown-red ; under tail-coverts bluish green ; 

 upper wing-coverts green, edged with yellowish green ; quills, 

 primary-coverts, and outermost greater upper wing-coverts pale blue, 

 edged with green ; under wing-coverts green, more or less yellowish, 

 the greater ones golden olive ; tail green ; quills and tail underneath 

 golden olive ; naked skin of the face very broad, whitish, edged below 

 with a row of brown-dotted feathers: "iris yellow" (Hauxivell); 

 bill black ; feet blackish. Total length 18 inches, wing 9-6, tail 9, 

 bill 0*65, tarsus - 7. 



Female. Like the male, only somewhat smaller. 



Hah. Guiana, and Amazons Valley to the base of the Andes of 

 Ecuador and Peru. 



a. <S ad. sk. Borba, Brazil, Feb. (Natterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Surinam. Sclater Coll. 



c. d, d 2 a d- s k- Roraima, Brit. Guiana, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitely). 

 e. $ ad.sk. Elvira, E.Peru, Jan. (Huuxwell). Sclater Coll. 



/, g. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



