204 PARROT. 



A. — This is about two feet in length. Bill stout, black, but less 

 strong than in the Red and Blue species ; space on the sides of the 

 head flesh-colour, marked with fine curved lines of slender red 

 feathers ; irides pale blue-grey ; head and body in general red ; the 

 nape, and back of the neck yellow; nostrils, just within the skin, a 

 triangular dusky space ; feathers of the back dark in the middle, and 

 yellowish on the edges ; those of the wing coverts darker red on the 

 margins, very dark in the middle, with white shafts ; the rest of the 

 wing blue; the lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts 

 blue ; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers fourteen inches long, 

 the outer ones very short, the colour of them fine red, with the ends 

 more or less blue, and pointed ; legs dusky. 



Described from a living bird at Exeter Change, London, and is 

 probably a variety of the Red and Blue Species, 



2— RED, YELLOW, AND BLUE MACCAW. 



P.ittacus A racanga, bid. Or n. i. 83. Gm. Lin. i. 313. Raii, p. 29; Will. p. 73. Id. 



Engl. 111. Levail. Perrog.i. p. 7. pi. 2. 

 Ara Jamaicensis, Bris.lv. 188. Id, 8vo. ii. p. 95. 

 Psittacus capite caeruleo, Klein, p. 24. 

 Petit Ara rouge, Buf.vi. 180. PL enl. 641. 

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

 Red and Yellow Maccaw, Gen. Syn. i. 201. Alb. ii. pi. 17. Brown. Jam. p. 472. Bancr. 



Guian. 156. 



A TRIFLE smaller than the former; length two feet nine inches. 

 Bill and irides the same ; nostrils placed in a naked white skin ; 

 cheeks naked, and white; plumage in general scarlet; rump pale 

 blue ; scapulars luteous, tipped with green ; the eighteen first quills 

 are violet-blue, the inner edge blackish ; the others green, variegated 

 with blue and purplish chestnut; all the quills have black shafts, 



