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Ara chloroptera (Souance). 



Red and Blue Macaw. 



Latham,/^, cit. p. 102 "Red and Blue Maccaw," (occurs on 

 " some of the islands [Antilles] also," as well as on the continent). 



Ara severa (Linn.). 



Jamaica, Brisson, loc. cit., p. 202. "Ara brasiliensis erythro- 

 chlora." — Latham, /0<r. cit. p. 112. " Brazilian Green Maccaw" 

 (refers to Edwards [Glean.], pi. 229 [1758]). 



Ara militaris (Linn.). 

 Military Macaw. 



Gosse (Birds of Jamaica, p. 261, 1847) supposes that this 

 species might have been a native of Jamaica, living in the wilder 

 mountain regions, and remarks that every description he received 

 of the bird agreed with that of A. militaris, "the Great Green 

 Macaw of Mexico." I agree with Mr. Cory 1 that "it is not im- 

 possible that Ara militaris may have occurred in Cuba and 

 Jamaica, but it is improbable. The bird recorded as such was 

 perhaps A. tricolor wrongly identified." 2 



We have thus narrowed down the Greater Antillean Macaws to 

 a single species (A. tricolor), which is not known outside of those 

 islands ; but which, like all the West Indian parrots (Amazona) is 

 peculiarly Antillean. 3 This species (or, perhaps, one closely 

 related) appears certainly to have formerly lived on Jamaica. 

 Sloane (Nat. Hist. Jamaica, II, p. 297, 1725) says, under "The 

 Small Maccaw" ("The Great Maccaw," is A. ararauna) : "They 

 are very common in the woods, and are eaten as Pigeons, but 

 when young are tamed and kept as Parrots." 



'Birds W. I., p. 178. 



2 The young of A. tricolor appears to have been largely green. 

 3 1 have not given all the references under the species listed above, but only 

 such as seemed most important. 



