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the Accompong Maroons, young birds, bearing the 

 evidence of being in the first year's plumage, have 

 been procured from hog-hunters. One specimen, 

 purchased from them by Mr. White, the proprietor of 

 Oxford estate, was for some time the admiration and 

 talk of the country round. I have been informed 

 by those who have noticed the bird on the wing, 

 that although the Macaws are never seen but flying 

 extremely high, their great size, and their splendid 

 length of tail, brilliant with intense scarlet, and 

 blue and yellow, strikingly attract attention, if their 

 harsh scream, heard in the hushed mountain soli- 

 tudes, does not betray them. They fly from one 

 ridge to another, journeying in pairs, and have 

 been followed by the eye till they have alighted 

 on the loftiest of the forest trees, in their chosen 

 resting places." 



YELLOW-BELLIED PARROQUET.* 

 Conurus flaviventer. 



Psittacus (Eruginosus, var. LATH. Syn. 

 Aratingafiaviventer^ SPIX. Av. Br. t. 18. f. 1. 



THE large earthy nests accumulated by the duck- 

 ants (Termites,) around the trunk or branches of 



* Length, measured over the head, llf inches, expanse 16 f, flexure 

 ,5f , tail 5, rictus f , tarsus -^, middle toe 1^. Irides pale orange ; cere 

 and cheeks, pale buff. 



