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Genus CYANOPSITTA Bonaparte. 



Cyanopsitta Bonap., Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p, 149 (Type Sittace spixii 

 Wagl.). 



Cyanopsitta spixi {Wagl.). Spix's Macaw. 



Sittace spixi Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, p. 675 (Rio Sao Francisco, Bahia, 



Brazil). 

 Cyanopsittacus spixi Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 150. 

 Arara hyacinthinus Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, pi. XXIII. 

 Cyanopsitta spixi Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayr. Akad. Wiss., Munchen, II kl., 



XXII, Bd. Ill, 1906, p. 576. 



Range: Eastern Brazil. 



Genus ARA Lacep^de. 

 Ara Lac^pede, Tabl. Ois., 1899, p. i (Type Psittacus macao Linn.). 



*Ara ararauna {Linn.). Blue and Yellow Macaw. 



Psittacus ararauna Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, ed. 10, 1758, p. 96 ("South America," 

 Brazil*); Lear, Parrots, 1832, pi. VIII. 



Ara ararauna Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 152; Ridgway, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 122; Goeldi, Alb. de Aves Ama- 

 zon, 1902, pi. 14; Descourtilz, Om. Bras., 1852, pi. 6, Fig. i; Stone, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 19 13, p. 196. 



Range: Panama and greater portion of South America, from Co- 

 lombia and the Guianas south to Bolivia and Paraguay. 

 3 : British Guiana. / 



Ara caninde {Wagler). Wagler's Macaw. 



S[ittace\ caninde Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, p. 674 (Paraguay); Joum. for 



Omith., 1 89 1, pi. I, Fig. i. 

 Ara caninde Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, p. 153; Ridgway, Bull. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 121, in key. 



Range: Paraguay, N. E. Argentine. 



Ara martinica'' {Rothschild). Martinique Macaw. 



Anadorhynchus martinicus Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, XVI, 1905, p. 14 



(Martinique); Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, p. 451. 

 Ara martinicus Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, p. 53, pi. 14. 

 Ara martinicus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, p. 125. 



Range: Martinique, West Indies (extinct). 



» See Hellmayr, Spix's Types, p. 577 and Braboume & Chubb, Bds. S. A., I 

 (list), 1912, p. 79. 



*> This may have been A. ararauna (See Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, p. 451). 



