CAROLINA ARARA. 105 



quently be seen rolling and fluttering about in the 

 dust, at times picking up and swallowing a limited 

 quantity. The lochs and saline springs are also con- 

 stantly frequented by them, salt appearing equally 

 agreeable to them as to pigeons, and various other 

 birds and animals. The bill of the Carolina Arara 

 is very hard and strong, the tip much thicker and 

 rounder than in the Psittacara group ; the tooth, or 

 angular process of the upper mandible, is well and 

 strongly defined ; the colour white. The irides are 

 hazel, the orbital skin whitish. The legs and feet 

 are of a pale flesh red ; the claws dusky. The fore- 

 head, cheeks, and periphthetonic region, are of a 

 vivid orange red, the rest of the head and neck gam- 

 boge yellow; the shoulder and ridge of the wings 

 yellow, varied with spots of orange red. The up- 

 per plumage is of a fine emerald green, with purple 

 and blue reflections. The greater wing-coverts are 

 deeply margined with greenish-yellow. The under 

 plumage is a fine pale siskin or yellowish-green. The 

 greater quills have their outer webs bluish-green, 

 passing into bright yellow at the base. The inner 

 webs are hair brown, slightly tinged with green near 

 their tips. The tail is green, the inner webs of the 

 lateral feathers tinged with brownish-reel. The fea- 

 thers of the tibiae are yellow, passing into orange at 

 the joint. In length it averages about 14 inches ; 

 in extent of wings 22 inches. 



