FAMILY PSITTACIDAE JI 



land, as in March 1962, when traveling by launch, I saw pairs on two 

 occasions on Isla Canal de Afuera, where they alighted briefly in the 

 high trees on the summit of the island. Range in egg size, according to 

 Schonwetter (Handb. Ool., pt. 9, 1964, p. 516), is 43.7-52.3x33-37 



ARA CHLOROPTERA G. R. Gray: Red-blue-and-green Macaw; 

 Guacamayo Rojo 



Ara chloroptera G. R. Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Psittacidae, 1859, p. 26. 

 (Guiana.) 



A large macaw, red on head and lower surface of body, with a 

 prominent band of green across the inner wing coverts, scapulars, and 

 tertials ; bill very large. 



Description. — Length 730 to 950 mm. Adult (sexes alike), head, 

 narrow feather lines across bare surface of side of head, neck, extreme 

 upper back and upper lesser wing coverts red ; middle coverts, inner 

 secondaries, tertials, and scapulars green, forming a broad band ; lesser 

 wing coverts green on hidden bases ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts 

 light blue ; greater coverts and secondaries blue ; primaries dark blue 

 with inner web margined with black ; central tail feathers dark red 

 tipped with blue; outer pairs blue, more or less red basally; longer 

 feathers on tibia tipped with green ; under tail coverts blue ; under 

 surface of wing and tail dark red. 



A male, taken at Armila, San Bias, February 23, 1963, had the iris 

 light yellow ; cutting edge of maxilla and all of mandible black ; rest 

 of maxilla ivory-white; bare skin on side of head white; tarsus, toes, 

 and claws black ; under surface of toe pads dull honey yellow. 



Measurements. — Males (4 from Panama, Colombia, and Vene- 

 zuela) wing 381-410 (392), tail 366-579 (462), oilmen from cere 

 79.4-88.4 (81.9), tarsus 34.5-40.6 (38.2) mm. 



Females (6 from Colombia and Brazil), wing 370-407 (390), tail 

 351-510 (417), culmen from cere 76.5-84.2 (78.9), tarsus 35.2-40.0 

 (37.4) mm. 



Resident. Found locally in the hill country of eastern Panama. Re- 

 corded in recent years from Darien and eastern San Bias; formerly 

 west to the northern Canal Zone. 



Sclater and Salvin (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, p. 367) list this 

 bird as received from McLeannan from Lion Hill, in what is now the 

 Canal Zone. Two specimens on which this record is based, now in the 

 British Museum (Natural History), are the only records from this 

 locality. The Vanderbilt Expedition of 1941 secured 1 on Cerro Sapo 



