136 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ARA TRICOLOR Bechstein. 

 CUBAN MACAW. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead (broadly) vermilion red, passing, 

 through dull orange-red on superciliary region and anterior part of 

 crown into saffron yellow or indian yellow on occiput and hindneck, 

 the feathers of the latter (especially on lower portion) with a con- 

 cealed central area of dull vermilion red; interscapulars dull red 

 (between dull vermilion and dragon's blood red), broadly margined 

 terminally with olive-yellow, the scapulars similar but decidedly 

 darker and with yellowish margins or tips less conspicuous and more 

 olivaceous; lesser wing-coverts dark brownish red (nearly brick red), 

 more or less distinctly edged with lighter red; middle coverts similar 

 but more or less tinged or intermixed with dull blue and olive-greenish; 

 greater coverts, alulae, primary coverts, primaries, and distal seconda- 

 ries dull blue (between deep azure and china blue), the innermost 

 (proximal) greater coverts mostly dull reddish brown and olive-green 

 on outer web; proximal secondaries dull olive-greenish suffused with 

 dull bluish; rump and tail-coverts clear light azure blue, the under 

 tail-coverts suffused with pale reddish basally, the shorter median, 

 anterior feathers light orange-red or vermilion broadly margined ter- 

 minally with greenish yellow or yellowish green; tail dull brownish 

 red or reddish brown (nearly brick red or dragon's blood red), passing 

 into dull blue on distal portion, the lateral pair of rectrices mostly 

 blue; auricular and malar regions, sides of neck, and under parts 

 (except under tail-coverts) dull orange-red (more orange than coral 

 red), the chin suffused. with dusky brown; smaller under wing-coverts 

 dull orange-red, the larger coverts chrome or cadmium yellow, those 

 near margin of wing dull bluish margined terminally, or tipped, with 

 light dull orange-red; under primary-coverts light grayish brown 

 tinged or suffused with reddish, the under surface of primaries similar 

 but more pronouncedly reddish; under surface of tail dull red, shaded 

 (in certain lights) with olivaceous; bill dusky or dull black basally, 

 more horn color terminally; iris light yellow?; naked skin of face pale 

 (probably pale pink or flesh color in life) ; legs and feet grayish dusky 

 (in dried skins) ; length (skins), about 485-510; wing, 276-288 (282.3) ; 

 tail, 290-305 (297.5);' culmen, 43.5-45 (44.3); tarsus, 23-25 (24.3); 

 outer anterior toe, 32.5-35.5 (33.7)." 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles, including Isle of Pines. (Extinct.) 



Psittacus macao (not of LinnEeus) Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 39 (ex Le petit 



Ara Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 641). 

 A[ra] tricolor Bechstein, Kurze Ueb., 1811, 64, pi. 1 ("South America"; based 



on L'Ara tricolor Le Vaillant, Hist. Nat. des Perroquets, i, 13, pi. 5). 

 Psittacus tricolor Kuhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 16.— Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, pi. 3. 



a Three specimens, none with sex determined. 



