PARROT. 



manner of Linn<eus, giving the beft account poilible of each, con- 

 fiftent with our intended concifenefs. 



199 



*With UNEVEN TAILS. 



Pfittacus macao, Lin. Syji. i. p. 139. N° 1. 



• Scop, Ann. i. p. 26. 



Ara du Brefil, Brif. om. iv. 184. t. 19. f. 1. 



L'Ara rouge, Buf. oif. vi. p, 179. — PL enl, 12. 



Pfitt. max. alter, Aldro-u. vid. Rail Syn. p. 29. N° 2. 



Maccaw, Albin. i. pi. 11.— Will. om. p. 73. 



Ara premier, Fermin. Defcrip.de Surinam, ii, p. 173. 



Red and blue Maccaw, Edw. t. 158. 



» 1 .. ■ Bancroft Guian. p. Ij6." 



^TT^HE length of this bird is two feet feven inches and a half: 

 ■*• the fize that of a Capon. The upper mandible is white; 

 the tip, and fides at the bale, black ; the under mandible wholly- 

 black : the cheeks are bare of feathers, being covered with only a 

 wrinkled fkin, of a whitilh colour : the irides yellow : the head, 

 neck, breaft, belly, thighs, and upper part of the back, are of a 

 fine bright red : the rump of a pale blue : fcapulars blue and 

 green mixed : the two middle tail feathers red, with pale blue 

 tips ; the next on each fide half blue half red ; the four outer 

 ones violet blue above, dull red beneath : the legs are dufky ; 

 claws black. Edwards fays, that this bird, when perfecl, will 

 meafure a full yard from bill to tail. 



It inhabits Brafil, Guiana, and other parts of Soul h America. 



The bill of this bird is fo ftrong, that it is able, with it, to 

 break a peach-ftone with great eafe *. 



* Orn, de Saleme, p. 6. 



This 



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+- RED AND 



BLUE 

 MACCAW. 



Description. 



Placs. 



