PARROT. 



Maceaws in general do not learn to fpeak *, and that their voice 

 is particularly rough and difagreeable. The flefh is hard, black, 

 and unfavoury, but makes good foup, and furnifhes a great part 

 of the food of the inhabitants of Cayenne, as well as other parts of 

 South America. 



This fpecies, in common with other Parrots, is fubject to fits 

 when kept tame ; but, notwithftanding, will live many years, 

 though the returns be pretty frequent; yet at laft is obferved to 

 fall a victim to this complaint rather than any other. 



It is called in America by the name of Gonzalo f . 



201 



L'Ara de la Jamaique, Brif. orn. iv. p. 1S8. N° 2. 2. 



Le petit ara rouge, Buf. oif. vi. p. 180.— PL enl. 641. ^J^D AND 



« .*•■„„ „„ YELLOW 



Aracanga Marcgravii, Rait Syn. p. 29. N° 3. MACCAW. 



Maccaw from Jamaica, Albin.\\. t. 17. — Brown' s Jamaica, p. 472. 



The Maccaw, called Aracanga, Will. orn. p. in. 



Red and yellow Maccaw, Bancroft. Guian. p. 156. 



'"pHE length of this bird is two feet eight inches and a half, Description. 



the tail itfelf being one foot eight inches and three quarters. 

 The bill is like that of the laft : irides luteous : noftrils placed in 

 a naked white fkin, at the bafe of the upper mandible : the 

 cheeks are white and naked : general colour of the plumage 

 fcarlet : rump pale blue : fcapulars luteous, tipped with green : 

 the eighteen firft quills are blue, with a fhade of violet, the 

 inner edge blackifh ; the others green, variegated with blue and 



• This fpecies is faid to fpeak very diftin&Iy, if inftrufted when young, but 

 naturally fqualls very much. Defer, de Surinam, vol. ii. p. 173. 

 f Scopol, Ann. Hift. Nat. i. p. 27. 



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