302 BIRD? OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



We do uot know tlie exact locality, in British Guiana, of the 

 female described. 



Adidt male. Similar in the colour of the plumage to that of the 

 female, but slightly smaller in size. Wing 305 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. " Nests in the high Mora trees'' (C. .4. Lloyd). 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



liange in British Guiana. Bartica, Bonasika River (McConnell 

 collection); Canuku and Pacaraima Mountains (ScJwmburgk) ; 

 Kaniakusa (Wliitely). 



E.rtralimital Range. Northern Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia. 



Jlahits. This species, according to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian.iii. 

 p. 730), was found by him more numerously on the Canuku and 

 Pacaraima Mountains. Its mode of life and babits are the same as 

 those of the two preceding species — Macrocercus aracanga (^=^Ara 

 macao, p. 299) and M. arauna (^ = A. uraraxina, p. 297). 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) iv. p. 32G) observed this species 

 on the Upper Berbice River, and remarks : — " The great green- 

 winged Blue-and-Red Macaw (^Ara cldoroptera) was the common 

 form seen, and three specimens were shot, though from their 

 high fliglit they seldom gave a chance.'* 



^Ir. ('. A. Lloyd (Timehri (2) ix. p. 274), writing on Guiana 

 Parrots, remarks : — ''This species is common all over the Colony 

 but is more abundant in the remote parts of the interior, wbere it 

 nests in high mora trees. It is the favourite bird of the Maconshi 

 Indians — no Macoushi village is complete without one or two 

 tame ' Couarries.' The nests of the Red-and-Blue Macaw are 

 ])laced in such inaccessible situations that even the Indian's 

 ingenuity is baffled in trying to reach tbem ; he is therefore 

 compelled to shoot the adult birds with his blow-pipe. As soon as 

 a bird is struck and falls he immediately administers to it a 

 dose of cane juice and salt, which, acting as an antidote to the 

 deadly AVourali, soon restores ' Couarrie' to his senses, when he is 

 taken to the Indian's hut and in a few days is as tame and accus- 

 tomed to his surroundings as if he had been bred and born there." 

 He also writes {op. cit. (2) xi. [>. 1 ) : — "The Red-and-Blue 

 Macaw, A. cldoroptera. Ijreeds on the tops of the tallest trees. 



'* This bird, Mr. Barshall informs me, often makes its nest 

 at a very moderate height from the ground, so tbat it can easily 

 be reached by climbing, but in the Savannah it always selects tlie 

 higherrt trees for the purpose.'' 



