BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 125 



Sittace caerulea Reichenow, Journ. flir Orn., 1881, 266 (ararauna rejected on 



grounds of purism); Consp. Psitt., 1882, 154; Vogelbild., 1883, Bericht. 



pi. 2, fig. 1. 

 Ara macao (not Psittacus macao Linnaeus) Provost, Ois. Exot., [1861], pi. 30. 

 Ara militaris (not Psittacus militarus Linnaeus) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 



176 (Arihueca, Santa Marta, Colombia). 

 Ara arauna Iheking, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 311 (Bio Claro, Rio Tiet6, 



Bio Verde, etc., Brazil). 



ARA MARTINICA (Rothschild.) 



MARTINIQUE MACAW. 



"Upper surface and head blue, chest and rest of under surface 

 orange." (Rothschild.) 

 Island of Martinique, Lesser Antilles. (Extinct.) 



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

 Nov. 1, 1905, 14 (Martinique, Lesser Antilles; ex Pere Jacques Bouton, 

 Rel. de l'establiss. d. Francais dep. 1635, en Pile Martinique, 1640, 71, 72). — 

 Salvadoei, Ibis, 1906, 451. 



Ara ararauna (not Psittacus ararauna Linnaeus?) Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, 451 (crit.). 



Ara martinicus Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, 53, pi. 14. 



ARA ERYTHRURA Rothschild. 



RED-TAILED BLTTE AND YELLOW MACAW. 



Head, hindneck, and back "satiny sky blue;" under parts (includ- 

 ing unde*r wing-coverts) yellow; tail red. 



One of the West Indian Islands, but the particular one unknown. 

 (Extinct.) 



Anadorhynchus coeruleus (not Psittacus caeruleus Gmelin) Rothschild, Bull. Brit. 



Orn. Club, xvi, no. cxviii, Nov. 1, 1905, 15 ("Jamaica"). 

 Ara erythrura Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, 54, pi. 15 ("one of the West 



Indian Islands;" based on DeRochefort, Hist. Nat. & Mor. des Isles Antilles, 



etc., 1658, 154, Art. ix, Des Arras). 



ARA CHLOROPTERA Gray. 



BED, BLUE, AND GREEN MACAW. 



Much like A. macao but larger (expecially the bill) ; bare loral and 

 suborbital regions with lines of short feathers; middle wing-coverts 

 and posterior scapulars green instead of yellow; remiges greenish 

 cerulean blue instead of violaceous cobalt blue; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts light greenish blue; red of head, neck, etc., darker, and 

 distal portion of rectrices, together with greater part of lateral rec- 

 trices, greenish blue. 



^Adults (sexes alike). — Head, neck, and under parts bright poppy 

 red (nearly carmine on under parts); back, anterior scapulars, and 

 lesser wing-coverts dull crimson, the feathers more or less distinctly 

 margined terminally with yellowish green; posterior scapulars, 

 middle wing-coverts, and proximal greater coverts yellowish green 



o This is evidently related to and possibly identical with A, ararauna. 



