Vol. XXII-1 Clark, Lesser Atitillean Macaws. 2 7 1 



1905 J / 



given by Dutertre and Labat. Both record this animal as found 

 only in Grenada, and say that it cannot be introduced into the 

 other islands. To-day Grenada is the only island (except, of 

 course, Tobago and Trinidad) where the Armadillo is found, and 

 it is there known by the same name that they give it — Tatu. 



The Lesser Antillean Macaw, as described by Dutertre, had 

 " the head, neck, underparts, and back, flame color; wings azure, 

 yellow, and scarlet; tail red, 18 inches long." Labat says: 

 "Head, neck, back, and underparts flame color; wings blue, yel- 

 low, and red ; tail red, 15 to 20 inches long." 



This shows that the bird differed from A. viacao in (1) having 

 the tail wholly red ; in A. macao the two central feathers are red, 

 the others with blue tips, increasing in extent to the outer pair, 

 which are almost wholly blue; and (2) in having a shorter tail 

 (? smaller 1 ) ; the tail of A. macao is two feet long. 



From A. chloroptera it differed (1) in having a wholly red tail 

 {A. chloroptera has even more blue in the tail than A. macao) ; 

 (2) in having yellow on the wings, and (3) in having a shorter 

 tail ( ? smaller) ; the tail of A. chloroptera is 21 in. long. 



From A. tricolor it differed in (1) having yellow on the wings, 

 and (2) in having a much longer tail ( ? larger) ; the tail of A. 

 tricolor is 10 in. in length. 



Dr. Latham has figured and described (Gen. Hist. Birds, II, 

 p. 107, pi. xxi, 1822) under the name of the "Red and Yellow 

 Maccaw," a bird entirely scarlet, except the posterior half of the 

 wings, which is yellow ; the lower rump, and tail coverts are rose 

 white. The bird came from Trinidad ( ! ) (probably Guiana or 

 Venezuela), and appears to be a variety of A. macao. 



D'Aubenton (PI. Enl. 12, "L'Ara Rouge") figures a bird with 

 all the tail feathers red (central pair and three on right side 

 shown), and with much more red on the scapulars and tertials 

 than in A. macao. There appears to be a possibility that the fig- 



1 In the Macaws the relative length of tail and wing, or of tail and total 

 length is variable, so that we cannot say with certainty that the bird was 

 smaller. A. tricolor measures, tail 10 in., wing 11 in., total length about 18 

 in. ; A. ararauna, tail 12 in., wing 14 in., total length about 31 in.; A. macao, 

 tail 23.5 in., wing 16 in., total length about 31 in. In the green Macaws the 

 wing and tail are about equal in length. 



