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Shanusi near Yurimaguas, e. Peru); Novit. Zool., xv, 1908, 284 (Cayenne).— 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 161; Ibis, 1906, 453.— Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ayes, ii, 1897, 569 (Lion Hill, Panama; 

 mouth of Rio Nercua, Colombia; etc.).— Holmbbrg, Segundo Censo Argen- 

 tina, 1898, 513.— Salvadoei and Fbsta, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 

 1900, 24 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecuador).— Berlepsch and Harteet, 

 Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 107 (Caicara, etc., Orinoco Valley, Venezuela).— 

 Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv, 1904, 448 (Rio Jurua, Amazonas, Brazil).— 

 (?)Clark (A. H.), Auk, xxii, 1905, 347 (Jamaica?).— Hellmayh, Abh. K. B. 

 Ak. Wiss., ii Kl., xxii Bd., iii Abt., 1905, 578 (crit.); Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 

 85 (Teffe, Brazil).— Ha gmann, Zool. Jahrb., 1907, 39 (Mexiana Island, 

 lower Amazon). 



[Ara] severa Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H., vii, 1862, 474 (Lion Hill, Panama). — 

 Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 111. — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 

 1900, 14. 



Ara severus Descotjrtilz, Orn. Bres., 1854- '56, pi. 6, lower fig. 



C[onurus] severus Cabanis, in Schomburgh's Reise Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 729. 



Ara castaneifrons Lapresnaye, Rev. Zool., x, March, 1847, 66 (Bolivia; type now 

 in coll. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.?). 



Macrocercus (Aracanga) castaneifrons Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 149. 



ARA ERYTHROCEPHALA Rothschild. 



RED-HEADED GREEN MACAW. 



"Head red, rest of body bright green. Wings and greater coverts 

 blue. Tail above scarlet and blue, under side of tail and wings 

 intense orange-yellow." (Rothschild.) 



Island of Jamaica ("Mountains of Trelawny and St. Anne's."). 

 (Extinct.) ° 



Ara erythrocephala Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, no. cxviii, Nov. 1, 1905, 

 14 (mountains of Trelawny and St. Anne's, Jamaica; ex Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 

 1847, 261, 262); Extinct Birds, 1907, 53, pi. 12.— Salvadori, Ibis, 1906, 452 

 (description). 

 Ara militaris (not Psittacus militaris Linnaeus) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 261. 



Genus RHYNCHOPSITTA Bonaparte. 



Rhynchopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. etMag. de Zool., (2) vi, 1854, 149 (Consp. Psitt., 



p. 6). (Type, Macrocercus pachyrhynckus Swainson.) 

 Rhynchopsittacus (emendation) Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xx, 1891, 168. 



Medium-sized cuneate-tailed Psittacidse (length about 375 mm.) 

 with relatively very large and greatly compressed bill, completely 

 feathered cere, sides of head (except orbital region) completely feath- 

 ered, tail much shorter than wing and graduated for only about one- 

 third its length, and with longest primaries exceeding distal secon- 

 daries by nearly half the length of wing; color green, with red 

 forehead, superciliary region, anterior margin of wing, and thighs, 

 greater under wing-coverts yellow, and under surface of remiges 

 and rectrices blackish. 



a "Procured by Mr. White, proprietor of the Oxford Estate." 



