>2 PARROT, 



1.— RED AND BLUE MACCAW. 



Psittacus Macao, Ind. Orn. i. 82. Ziw.i. 139. Gm. Lin. i. 312, Scop , AnnA. No. 21. 



Borotvsk. Nat. ii. 89. 

 Ara Braziliensis, Bris.'w. 184. t.19. 1. 7rf.8ro.ii. 94, Gerin.u 93. 1. 102. Bv/.vl. 



179. PI. enl. 12. De«r. Sunn, ii. 173. Naturf. xix. 80. 

 Psittacus maximus alter, Rail. p. 29. Will. p. 73. Klein, p. 24. 

 Ara Macao, Lecail. Perroq.i. p. 3. pi. 1.2. 3. 

 Le Guacamayo rouge, Fby. d'Azara, iv. No. 271. 

 The other Maccaw of Aldrovand, JFiW. Engl. p. 111. 

 Scarlet Maccaw, Shaw's Zool. viii. 386. pi. 53. 

 Red and Blue Maccaw, Gen.St/n.i. 199. ijdw, pi. 158. J/fi.i. pi. 11. Bancr, Guian. 



13G. Johnst.Av, pi. 15. f.2. 



SIZE of a Fowl ; length from two to three feet. The bill very 

 strong,* the upper mandible white, the tip, and sides at the base 

 black ; the under wholly black ; irides pale hazel ; cheeks bare of 

 feathers, covered with a wrinkled whitish skin ; head, neck, breast, 

 belly, thighs, and the upper part of the back tine bright red ; rump 

 pale blue, scapulars blue and green mixed ; tail very long, and 

 greatly cuneiform, the exterior feathers being shorter by at least 

 twelve inches than the middle ones, which are red, with pale blue 

 tips ; the next on each side half blue, half red, and the four outer ones 

 violet blue above, and dull red beneath ; legs dusky ; claws black. 



Inhabits Brazil, Guiana, and other parts of SouthAmerica, and 

 we believe some of the Islands also; but becomes scarce, or wholly 

 eradicated in proportion to the increase of inhabitants. 



These birds frequent the moist woods, especially those planted with 

 the Maccaw plant,t on which it feeds, and of which there are large 

 forests in the marshy, wet savannas; are chiefly seen in pairs, though 

 sometimes met with in vast flights ; J are esteemed by the natives for 



* So as to be able to crack a peach stone with ease, f Borassus flabellifer, 



% Anson, mentioning a water-fall in the Island of Quibo, says, " while we were viewing 

 it, there came in iight a prodigious flight of >Iaccaws s which hovering over this spot, and 



