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THE HYACINTHINE MACCAW. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill hooked, upper mandible moveable. 

 Nosi RiLs round, placed in the bafe of the bill. 

 Tongue flefhy, broad, blunt at the end. 



Legs ftiort, toes formed for climbing, viz. two toes forward, and tw« 

 Jjackward. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Long-tailed deep-blue Maccaw, with the bill and legs black, the orbits 

 and bafe of the lower mandible yellow. 



OF all the parrot tribe yet known this bird feems to be the largeft 



as well as the mod auguft in its appearance. It is alfo a new Ipecies, 



and was unknown to naturalifts till it was introduced into the Leverian 

 Mufeum by the late Lord Orford, who purchafed it living. 



Nothing certain is known with refpeft to its native country : it may 

 however be ftrongly prefumed that, like the Pfittacus Macao, Ararauna, and 

 the other large Maccaws, it may be an inhabitant of South America, and 

 probably of Brafil in particular. Its colour is the richeft and deepeft 

 mazarine blue, uniformly diffufed over the whole bird j except that on the 



edges 



