BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 119 



ANODORHYNCHUS PURPURASCENS Rothschild. 



GUADELOUPE VIOLET MACAW. 



"Entirely violet. Native name of the Caraiibes 'Onecouli.' "° 

 Island of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles. (Extinct.) 



Anadorhynchus purpurascens Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, no. cxviii, 

 Nov. 1, 1905, 13 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; ex Don de Navaret, Eel. Voy. 

 Christ. Colombe, ii, 1838, 425). 



Anodorhynchus purpurascens Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, 55, pi. 13. — Sal- 

 vador, Ibis, 1906, 451. 



Genus ARA Laeepede. 



Am Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., 1799, 1. (Type, Psittaeus rnacao Linnseus.) 

 Paraeus Rafinesqtje, Analyse de Nature, 1815, 65. (New name for "Am La- 

 eepede]. ") 

 Paranus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 144. (Error for Paraeus Rafinesque.) 

 Macrocereus & ViEttiOT, Analyse, 1816, 70. (Type, Psittaeus macao Linnseus.) 

 Macrocireus (emendation) Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 299. 

 Sittace Wagler, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 499. (Type, Psittaeus ararauna Linnseus.) 

 Arara Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 25. (Type, Psittaeus macao Linnseus.) 

 Araclanga c Gloger, Gem. Hand-u. Hilfsbuch der Naturg., Bd. 1, 1842, 193. 



(New name for Ara Cuvier on ground of purism.) 

 Ararauna Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 149. (Type, Psittaeus ara- 

 rauna Linnseus.) 

 Araeanga B on aparte , Re v. et Mag. de Zool . , 1854, 149 . (Type , Psittaeus aracanga 



Gmelin=P. macao Linnseus.) 

 Primolius Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliv, 1857, 596. (Type, Sittace primoli 



Bonaparte=.4rara auricollis Cassin.) 

 Macao S. D. W., Analyst, iii, no. xiv, Jan., 1836, 212. (Type, M. splendens= 

 Psittaeus ararauna Linnseus?.) 



Medium-sized to very large long-tailed Psittacidse (length about 

 390-800 mm.) with sides of head mostly naked, width of chisel-like 

 tip to mandible equal to not more than one-third the length of gonys, 

 and with parti-colored plumage (at least yellow or red, usually green 

 also, being present in addition to blue) . 



Bill moderate to enormously large, its depth at base equal to nearly 

 the length of culmen d (sometimes more) , its greatest width equal to 

 more than half its depth at base; culmen nearly as long as to much 

 longer than middle toe with claw, very regularly and strongly de- 

 curved from base, broadly rounded or (sometimes) slightly flattened 

 proximally; maxillary unguis variable, sometimes rather thick and 

 obtuse, sometimes compressed, attenuated, and acute (though 



o Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 13. 



6 "Ma/fpo/cep/cos, praelongam caudam habens." ( Vieillot.) 



c 'Apo (Ara); iCKayyii, screaming. (Richmond.) 



* In all cases, measurements of curved surfaces or lines represent the chord and 

 not the curve ; that is to say the distance in a straight line between the extreme points, 

 as when taken by dividers. 



