ARA. 299 



very clannish, n^ver associating with anv other species. On 

 the Takutu River -we saw at sunrise htmdreds o£ pairs sitting 

 on the trees growing on the banks, preening themselves and 

 caressing each otlier, emitting all the time a purring noise. The 

 nidification is the same as that of A. aracanga. Its flesh is good. 

 We made splendid soup of it during our journey up the Takutu 

 River. The '• Macusis " call it Cararauma and the " Warraus " 

 Apohuima. 



Mr. Barrington Brown (Canoe and Camp IAIq, p. 2\'l) 

 remarks: — '' Blne-and-Yellow Macaws flew with discordant 

 cries up or down the river, always approaching to have a look 

 at us."' 



Mr. J. J. Quek'h observed this s}iecies on the' Aljary R-iver, 

 and remarks (Timehri (2) ii. p. 365): — " The Blue-and-Yellow 

 Macaw [Ara ararauna) is sometimes found here al:?o. and a dried 

 skin of one which had been shot a short time before vas hung up 

 inside the house.''' 



Mr. (,'. A. Lloyd, writing on Guiana Parrots. remarlvS (Timehri 

 (2) ix. p. 275): — "The Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, A. araraima, 

 known to the Indians as the ' Cararawa,' is frequently seen on 

 the Savannahs, where it breeds, making its nest in the dead 

 trunks of the Eta palm, Mauritia fiexnosa. The Indians say that 

 its eggs are speckled, but we were never able to prove the ti'utli 

 of this statement.'"' 



Mr. Be^be (Our {Search for a Wilderness, p. loT) writes as 

 follows : — " Blue-and-Yellow Macaws were common — always in 

 multiples of two. We observed them a half-dozen times in different 

 reaches of the river — four in the first group, then eight, two, six, 

 four, and two.^' 



He also remarks {t. c. p. 338) : — "A pair of Blue-and-Yellow 

 Macaws screamed. When heard in the distance, all harshness is 

 eliminated from their voices, and an extremely human quality 

 of sound is ac<juired, as of one person calling in a high tune to 

 another." 



190. Ara macao. 



Scarlet Macaw. 



Paittncus macao Linn. Syst. Nat. lOtli ed. i. p. 06, 1758 (Pcrnamlmco). 

 Macrocercus aracanga Cab. in Schonib. Itcis. CJuian. iii. p. 721), ISlS; 



Hrown, Canoe and Camp Life, j). 192, 1K7U (Hurro IJurro) (tlie 



autlior mentions that tin's was a taiiu' bird). 

 Am Hificao Salvin. Iljis, ls.s(j, p. 07; Salva(b Cat. Ii. Hrlt. Mus. 



