AKA. 303 



192. Ara severa. 



Brazilian Green Maca"^'. 



Psiffacus severus Linn. Svst. Xat. 10th ed. i. p. 97. 1758 (Colombia). 



Conurus severus Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 729, 1818. 



Ara severa Sahan, Ibis, 1886. p. 66 ; Salvad. Cat. B. Bnt. Mus. xx. 



p. 161, 1891 ; Brabourne &: Chxibb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 80, no. 739, 



1912. 



Adult. General colour above and Ijelow grass-green ; crown of 

 head and nape inclining to blue; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blue edged with brown on the inner webs ; tail-feathers 

 blue at the tips, green on the basal portion, brown on the inner 

 webs towards the base and also on the central portion of the 

 middle tail-feathers ; bend of wing and under wing-coverts scarlet 

 with a few green feathers intermixed, the greater series olive- 

 green ; quill-lining and lower aspect of tail dark rose-pink ; base 

 ot" forehead brown. 



Total length 415 mm., culnien 37, wing 231, tail 227, tarsus 21. 



This species is not represented in the McOonnell collection, 

 and the bird from which the description is taken is in the British 

 Museum and was collected at Bogota. 



A male bird in the same collection is similar to the one 

 described, and has a wing-measurement of 245 mm., and was 

 collected by Mr, J. Hauxwell at Pebas, East Peru, on the 4th of 

 August, 18G6 — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Tde only record of the occurrence of this species in British 

 Guiana is that of tSchomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 729). 



Bveediiiq-seasoiK Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS'ed. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kqqs. Undescribed from Britisli (xuiana. 



liaiKje in British (Jiiiaiid. Unknown. 



Extralimital Baixje. Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, 

 Peru, Bolivia. 



Habits. Schomburgk (Reis. Guiana, iii. p. 729) mentions this bird 

 as one of the rarer species in British (niiana. During the whole of 

 Ills sta}' in tlie Colony he only met with it a few times. It roamed 

 about in small flocks. Its habits and mode of life arc similar to 

 those of the other Araras. When it is feeding one lu-ars 

 a "purring*' noise. It generally sits in i>airs, caressing each 

 cllx-r. 



