106 PARROT. 



4— MILITARY MACCAW. 



Psittacus militavts, Ind. Orn.'i. 83. Lin.i. 139. Gm. Lin.'i. 313. 

 Ara militaire, Levail. Perroq.'i. p. 9. pi. 4. 

 Le Maracana farde, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 274. 

 Largest Guiana Parrot, Saner. Guian. p. 158. 

 Le grand Ara militaire, Levail. Perroq. pi. 6. 

 Great Green Maccaw, Edw. pi. 313. 



Military Maccaw, Gen. Syn. i. 202. Id. Sup. 58. Gent. Mag. xliii. pi. in p. 505. Shaw's 

 Zool. viii. 395. 



SIZE of the former. Bill large, dusky; irides yellow; sides of 

 the head bare, and flesh-coloured, traced over with several slender 

 lines of black feathers ; forehead red ; the crown, neck, breast, and 

 wings full green ; middle of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts 

 blue ; quills, and part of the row of feathers next above them, 

 fine sky blue; insides of the wings, and under the tail dirty orange- 

 colour; tail cuneiform, as in the others, of a fine chestnut red, 

 tipped with blue ; legs dusky flesh-colour. 



I suspect this to be the bird mentioned above by Bancroft, as 

 big as a Maccaw. The bill long, slender, and flesh-coloured ; 

 plumage beautiful pea-green ; the feathers at the top of the head, 

 and upper edge of the wing red ; tail long, composed of green, red, 

 and purple feathers. Said to be frequent at Demerary, and often 

 to speak distinctly; the name among the natives is Acushi. 



Mr. Edwards took his description from a living specimen. We 

 have since seen a similar one, preserved on paper, at the late Taylor 

 White's, Esq. done by his daughter, in the manner described by Mr. 

 Edwards, in his History of Birds, and on Mr. White's death, 

 became part of the Leverian Collection. 



* Buffon will have it to be a Variety of his Ara-Tert.— Hist. Ois.'u. p. 201. 



