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Subfamily Arinae 



[MACAW 



Macaw, Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 16, Nov. 1, 1905, pp. 14-15 

 (Hispaniola) ; Extinct Birds, 1907, p. 52 (Hispaniola). 

 Ara rouge, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 6, 1779, p. 183 (reported). 

 Ara tricolor, Clark, Auk, 1905, pp. 337, 348 (listed from Haiti). 



Macaws are reported in early days from Cuba and Jamaica but 

 the only note that refers to them in Hispaniola is that of Buffon who 

 in the Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, (vol. 6, 1779, p. 183) says 

 under l'Ara rouge " en general, les aras etoient autrefois tres-com- 

 muns a Saint-Domingue. Je vois par une lettre de M. le chevalier 

 Deshayes, que dequis que les etablissemens francois ont ete pousses 

 j usque sur le sommet des montagnes, ces oiseaux y sont moins 

 frequens." A. H. Clark, in Auk, 1905, p. 348, cites this but through 

 a lapsus calami refers it to Brisson, and considers that the Haitian 

 bird may have been Ara tricolor. 



According to Moreau de Saint-Mery, 77 Deshayes, born in 1732, 

 resided on an estate called Tivoly located a quarter of a mile from 

 the sea in the canton of Plymouth, parish of Jeremie. Though a 

 student of general natural history he preferred birds to all other 

 subjects. 



Lord Rothschild writes 78 : "I may also mention that a small 

 Macaw, also supposed to have been A. tricolor, was found on Hayti. 

 This, in my opinion, must have been a third species, but we have 

 no definite description of it." And in another place 79 says : " There 

 was a third member of the tricolor group of Macaws found on the 

 large island of Haiti, which Mr. Clark has also united under A. tri- 

 color^ but I believe it must have been different, just as the Jamaica 

 bird." 



The record as it stands above is indefinite and uncertain and until 

 other evidence is offered the macaw can not be accepted in this list.] 



ARATINGA CHLOROPTERA CHLOROPTERA (Souance) 

 HISPANIOLAN PAROQUET, PERICO, PERRICHE, PERRTJCHE 



Psittacara chloroptera Souancf., Rev. Mag. Zool., 1856, p. 59 (" Saint- 

 Domingue"). 



Papagayo, Ovtedo, Hist. Gen. Nat. Indias, Libr. 14, Cap. 4; Reprint, Madrid, 

 1851, p. 443 (common). 



Sincialo. Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 6, 1779, pp. 265-268 (part; "Saint- 

 Domingue "). 



77 Descrip. Part, Franc, Isle Saint-Domingue, vol. 2, 1798, pp. 814-815. 

 ™ Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, vol. 16, 1905, pp. 14-15. 

 70 Extinct Birds, 1907, p. 52. 



