204 



PARROT. 



BLUE AND 



YELLOW 



MACCAW. 



Description. 



Place, 



Pfittacus ararauna, Lin. S\fi. i. p. 139. N°3.— Scop. aim. i. p. 27. N*J2. 



L'Ara bleu & jaune du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. 193. t. 20. 



L'Ara bleu, Buf. oif. vi. 191. — PL enl. 36. — Defcrip. de Surinam, vol. ».< 



p. 174. 

 Pfittacus max. cyanccroc. Aldrov. Rail Sjn, p. 28. I. p. 181. 5. 

 Aldrov. blue and yellow Maccaw, Will. orn. p. no. N° 1. 



Brafilian Ararauna, ■■ p. 111, N° 4. t. 15. 



Blue and yellow Maccaw, Ediu. t. 159. 



Lev. Muf. 



< ""T"*H1S is about the fize of the former ones : length two feet 

 feven inches and a half. Bill black : forehead to the crown., 

 and the fides of the head, dull green- j the reft of the upper parts., 

 to the coverts of the tail, are of a fine blue : cheeks and throat 

 covered with a bare white fkin ; each cheek is befet with black 

 lines, compofed of very fhort feathers, which arife at the angles 

 of the mouth, and paffing beneath the eyes, tend towards the 

 hind head : eyelids edged with black : irides pale yellow : from 

 the lower part of the neck to the tail the plumage is of a faffron- 

 colour, and in fome birds there is likewife a mixture of faffron- 

 colour on the wing coverts * : the tail is blue above, and the 

 two middle feathers of one plain colour ; the reft have the inner 

 margins inclining to violet, and near the bafe margined with 

 blackifh : the tail is much cuneated, as in thofe before noted t 

 the legs cinereous : claws black. 



Inhabits Jamaica, Guiana, Brafil, and Surinam. 



* This I obferve to be the cafe in the Planches enluminees. 



L'Ara 



