33O BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



This species was observed at all points visited from the delta 

 region up, as far as I extended my explorations. Like most, if not 

 all, of the species belonging to this family, its presence in any par- 

 ticular locality depends largely on the ripening of the fruits on which 

 it feeds. 



ARA CHILOROPTERA G. R. Gray. 1 



Ara chloroptera G. R. Gray, List Psit. Brit. Mus. (1859) p. 26. 

 Native name Carapaico. Less frequently seen than the preceding 

 species. An adult male and an adult female were taken at Caicara 

 May 23, 1905, and others taken in 1907. Like the preceding species 

 they usually go in pairs. Not noted on my first expedition to the 

 Orinoco. 



ARA ARARAUNA (Linnaeus). 



Psittacus Ararauna Linnaeus, Syst. Nat, ed 10; 1758: p. 96 (Brazil). 

 Ara ararauna Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1913: p. 196 (Guinipa). 

 Recorded from Guinipa Village by Stone. 



ARA SEVERA (Linnaeus). 



Psittacus severus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1758. p. 97. 

 Ara severa Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 107. 



Native name Maracano. During the season for ripe mangoes 

 about Caicara, from April to June, this species is abundant, associated 

 in small flocks of from five or six to twenty individuals. At this 

 season they are extremely fat and many are shot for food by the 

 natives. 



Eye chrome yellow, bare skin about eye chalk white ; bill black ; feet 

 blackish slate. 



DIOPSITTACA HAHNI (Souance). 

 Psittacara hahni Souance, Rev. Zool. 1856. p. 58. 

 Ara hahni Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 107. 



Diopsittaca hahni Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Coc. Wash. XXV: 1912: p. 99. 

 Not observed on the Orinoco. Recorded by Berlepsch and Har- 

 tert from Suapure on the Caura River. 



"Why should not this be Ara brasiliensis Brisson, Orn. IV. 1760. p. 184. pi. XIX f. 



