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L'Ara bleu & jaune de la Jamaique, Brif. cm. iv. p, ior, N° 3. 4„ 



Pfittac. max. casrul. varius, cauda produdta, Brown's Jam. p. 272, Var. A. 



Blue Maccaw, Albin. iii. t. 10. MACCAW. 



ALB1N fays, this bird has not thofe feathery lines on the Description. 

 cheeks and throat which are confpicuous in the others ; and 

 that the top of the head in this is blue, where in the other it is 

 of a dull green, otherwife one defcription might ferve : but he 

 errs in fuppofing this to be the female of the red and blue Mae- 

 caw, for it furely can be no other than a mere variety of the laft- 

 mentioned. 



This bird inhabits the fame places with that bird, but is not fo Place.. 



plenty by far ; it does not herd with it, nor do they even meet 

 together with civility. The inhabitants know the one from the 

 other by the cry, which is very different, and fay that it does not 

 pronounce the word ara fo diftinft as the blue and red Maccaw. 



La Perriche ara, Buf. oif. vf. p. 277. j v 



• de Cayenne, PL ml. 864. ,F^j^?,T, 



. — — — Barren Fran, equin. p. 145. 



MACCAW. 



BARRERE is the firft who has mentioned this bird. It is in 

 length eighteen inches, the tail itfelf meafuring nine inches. 

 From the angles of the mouth to beyond the eyes it is bare of 

 feathers: the top and fides of the head are green, with a mixture 

 of deep blue, fo as in certain afpefls to appear intirely blue : the 

 throat, fore part of the neck, and upper part of the breaft, have 

 a ftrong tinge of rufous ; the reft of the breaft, belly, and fides, 

 9 green, 



Description. 



