? 4.6 Clark, The Greater Antillean Macaws. [.Oct! 



as far as Jamaica, although it is possible that they occasionally 

 escaped and were killed in an apparently feral state in the woods. 

 I have known of A. ararauna and A. macao being killed on the 

 island of Barbados, probably having come from ships at anchor in 

 the harbor, and, of course parrots (and in one case I know of 

 A. macao) are sometimes shot even in the woods of New England. 



Ara ararauna (Linn.). 



Blue and Yellow Macaw. 



Jamaica, Sloane, Nat. Hist. Jamaica, II, p. 296, 1725. "VI. 

 Psittacus maximus cyanocroceus." — Albin, Nat. Hist. Birds, II, p. 

 16, 1738. "The Maccaw from Jamaica" (part). 1 — Brisson, Orn. 

 IV, p. 191, 1760. " Ara jamaicensis cyanocrocea." — Browne, 

 Civil and Nat. Hist. Jamaica, p. 472, 1789 "The Blue Mackaw of 

 Edwards." — Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, II, p. 107, 1822. "The 

 Blue and Yellow Maccaw." 2 



Ara macao 8 (Linn.). 



Red and Yellow Macaw. 



Jamaica, Albin, loc.cit. Brisson, loc. cit. p. 188. " Ara jamai- 

 censis, ." 



1 Albin figures a Red and Blue Macaw (pi. 17) as from Jamaica, saying it is 

 the male of the Blue and Yellow Macaw. It was probably intended to repre- 

 sent A. macao (possibly colored from memory) which was commonly consid- 

 ered the male of A. ararauna. 



2 The reference to Latham's 'Index' and 'Synopsis' are contained in this 

 work, and are therefore not given here. 



3 The name " macao " was given because the bird was supposed to have 

 come from Macao, near Hong Kong. The English word Macaw is said by 

 some to have been derived from it. 



