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Macrocercus tricolor Vibillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ii, 1816, 262; Tabl. Enc. 



Meth., iii, 1823, 1418.— Lesson, Traite d'Om., 1831, 186, pi. 18, fig. 1 — 



Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 105 (Cuba). — Beewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1871, 277; 1874, 163 



(habits); Contr. Orn. Cuba, 1876, 126, 276. 

 [Macrocercus] tricolor Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 336; Repert. Pisico Nat. 



Cuba, i, 1866, 297. 

 S[ittace] tricolor Waglee, Mon. Psitt., 1832, 669, 733. 

 Sittace tricolor Finsch, Die Papag., i, 1867, 409. — Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn., 



1881, 268 (monogr.); Consp. Psitt., 1882, 156; Vogelbild., 1883, Nacb.tr., 



74. — Marschall, Papag., 1889, 55. 

 M[acrocircu8] tricolor Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 299. 

 Ara tricolor D'Oebignt, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 161. — Finsch, 



Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., i, 1863, Berigbt., p. xiv.— Coey, Auk, iii, 1886, 



454, part (Cuba); Birds West Ind., 1889, 177, part (Cuba); Cat. West Ind. 



Birds, 1892, 101, 128, part (Cuba; Isle of Pines). — Salvadoei, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 157; Ibis, 1906, 452. — Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, ed. 



1895, 151.— Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 15 (extinct); 



Extinct Birds, 1907, 51, pi. 10. — Bangs and Zappet, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 



200 (last one sbot on Isle of Pines about 1864). — Claek (A. H.), Auk, xxii, 



1905, 347, 348, part (Cuba; extinct). 

 A[ra] tricolor Geay, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 412. 

 [Ara] tricolor Geay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 145, no. 8083. — Sclatee and Salvin, 



Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 111, part (Cuba).— Coey, List' Birds West Ind., 1885 



(and rev. ed., 1886), 20, part (Cuba).— Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 13 — 



Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverpool Mus., i, 1897, 10 ("Mexico"). 

 Macrocercus (Aracanga) tricolor Lembeye, Aves de la Isle de Cuba, 1850, 132. — 



Bonaparte. Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 149. — Souance, Rev. et Mag. de 



Zool., 1856, 57— Finsch, Nederl. Tijdschr., Dierk., 1863, p. xiv ("S. Am."). 

 Arara tricolor Brehm, Mon. Papag., 1842, 3. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, 



no. 26 (Psittaci), 1864, 4; no. 38 (Revue), 1874, 2. 

 Macrocercus aracanga Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ii, 1816, 258, part (cites 



Petit Ara rouge Daubenton, PI. Ent., 641). 



ARA GOSSEI Rothschild. 



GOSSE'S MACAW. 



"Forehead, crown, and back of neck bright yellow, sides of face, 

 anterior and lateral parts of neck and back bright scarlet, wing- 

 coverts and breast deep blood-red, winglet and primaries light blue, 

 tail red and yellow. Basal half of the upper mandible black, apical 

 half ash-colored; lower mandible black, tip only ash-colored. Legs 

 and feet said to have been black." (Rothschild.) 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles ("mountains of Hanover Par- 

 ish, about ten miles east of Lucea"). (Extinct.) 08 



Ara tricolor (not Psittacus tricolor Bechstein) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 260. — 

 Albeecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 202 (Jamaica). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 454, 

 part (Jamaica); Birds West Ind., 1889, 177, part (Jamaica); Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 101, 128, part (Jamaica).— Salvadoei, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xx, 1891, 157, part (Jamaica); Ibis, 1906 453 (description). — Claek, Auk, 

 xxii, 1905, 348, part (Jamaica). 



A[ra] tricolor Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 110. 



Ara tricolor'! Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 129 (Jamaica; extinct). 



° "Specimen shot about 1765, by Mr. Odell." 



