72 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



above Garachine, and we have 1 taken on June 12, 1912, by E. A. 

 Goldman at 900 meters above Cana on Cerro Pirre. Other records are 

 of birds taken by Wedel at Perme and Puerto Obaldia, San Bias. In 

 February and early March 1963, I saw them daily near our camp on 

 the Quebrada Venado back of Armila in this area, and secured 2 

 males, taken February 23 and 25. My usual note of them was of pairs 

 flying over the high forest with strong wing strokes, often calling with 

 the raucous notes usual in macaws. On March 16, I recorded 2 pairs 

 back of Puerto Obaldia. The following year I saw a pair on March 

 9, at our camp at 580 meters elevation on the Rio Tacarcuna, Darien. 

 A female was collected on Cerro Mali, June 3, 1963, by Dr. Pedro 

 Galindo. 



The bill in this species is notably large, with the distal end of the 

 maxilla elongated and slender. The tip of the long tail is subject to 

 much wear. The species ranges widely in South America from Colom- 

 bia southward. 



According to Schonwetter (Handb. Ool., pt. 9, 1964, p. 516) eggs 

 measure 47-53 X 33-37 mm. 



ARA SEVERA (Linnaeus): Chestnut-fronted Macaw; Guaquita 



Psittacus scverus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 97. (Amazon 

 River.) 



Smallest of the macaws found in Panama; green with a narrow 

 band of dull chestnut on the forehead. 



Description. — Length 400-490 mm. Adult (sexes alike), forehead 

 and narrow line bordering bare throat dull chestnut ; crown and upper 

 hindneck green with a faint bluish cast ; back, rump, upper tail coverts, 

 lesser wing coverts, tertials, and entire under surface green; alula, 

 primaries, and inner secondaries blue, tipped and margined on the 

 inner web with dull black; inner secondaries also blue, but margined 

 externally with green ; central rectrices yellowish green, with the shafts 

 dull red basally ; outer pairs blue with dull red on inner webs ; outer 

 lesser under wing coverts red, inner ones, and a line through the outer 

 ones, green ; under greater coverts dull reddish brown ; underside of 

 wing dull red, with a border of fuscous-black on both webs and tip ; 

 underside of tail dull red; feathers of tibia dull red basally; lines of 

 tiny feathers on bare side of head dull black to dull chestnut. 



A male shot at Pucro, Darien, January 29, 1964, had the iris pale 

 orange ; bare skin of face and side of head pale ivory-white ; bill black ; 

 inside of mouth black; scutes of tarsus and toes dull fuscous-black, 

 with spaces between brownish gray ; claws black. 



