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PSITTACID^, 



GENUS CCXX.— ARATINGA, Spix. 



Beak slender, dentated. 



Rostrum gracilum, denta- 



tuni. 

 Orbitcc nudiusculas ; gena; 



angustae, vix vel raro 



nudae. 

 Cauda longiuscula, cuneata ; 



rectricibus intermediis lon- 



gioribus. 



Orhits rather naked : cheeks 

 narrow, scarcely naked. 



Tail rather long, wedged, 

 the intermediate feathers 

 lengthened. 



This genus, which apparently unites the Maccaws 

 with the long-tailed Parrakeets on the one side, and 

 the latter with the short-tailed or true Parrakeets on 

 the other, is peculiar to the New World ; they have 

 also -an affinity to the Psitticarae, which commence 

 the present stirps. 



Sp. I. Ar. Carolinae Augustae. Spix, Avium Nov. Spec. p. 29. 



1)1. xii. 

 Ab. marginibus aureo-luieus ; remigibus viridibus; cauda totd 



aureo-luted; rostrojlavo-albido. 

 Rather large Aratinga of a golden-yellow; with the quills green ; 



the entire tail golden-yellow ; the beak yellow-white. 



Inhabits Brazil. Body above and beneath spot- 

 less golden-yellow, with the feathers white at the 

 base : cheeks somev^rhat plumose : orbits rather naked, 

 yellowish : the wing-coverts and edges of the axilla) 

 luteous : the wings above and beneath golden yellow ; 

 quills greenish, dusky on the inner webs; tail above 

 and beneath golden-yellow, the shafts white : beak 

 yellowish-white. 



