RED AND BLUE MAOC AW. 1 1 5 



satisfaction and pleasure, its screams, and hoarse dis- 

 cordant tones, rendering it any thing but an agree- 

 able companion when confined within the precincts 

 of a private house. Our figure is from a living bird 

 in the gardens 01 the Zoological Society. 



Immediately following the Maccaws, and nearly 

 related to them by the strength and thickness of the 

 bill, and the naked skin which still occupies the or- 

 bits, and more or less of the face, is a group to 

 which we would restrict the title of Psittacara, Vi- 

 gors, typified by his Psittacara frontata, but not 

 embracing all the birds which he included in it, se- 

 veral of them having their station among the Araras, 

 or that group to which the Patagonian species be- 

 longs. The genus Psittacara is distinguished by 

 a large, deep, and massive bill, the upper man- 

 dible with the culmen imperfectly biangulated, tlie 

 tip drawn suddenly to a fine sharp point, the to- 

 mia sinuated, or imperfectly toothed, the under 

 mandible very large and thick, the tip quadrate, 

 the orbits, and space between the bill and eyes, 

 to a greater or less extent naked. Nostrils round, 

 patent, in the cere at the base of the bill. Wings 

 rather long, acuminate, the three first feathers of 

 nearly equal length, wide at the base, narrow- 

 ing suddenly toward their tips. Tail rather long, 

 and moderately graduated. The passage from the 

 Maccaw to the Parrot division, appears in one point 

 to be effected by the apparent connection that sub- 



