PARROT, 107 



5 —RED AND YELLOW MACCAW. Pl. XXI. 



LENGTH three feet at least. Bill two inches and a half, in a 

 strait line from point to base, but taken circularly above three inches ; 

 depth of both mandibles at the base two inches and a half ; colour 

 pale yellow oker ; sides of the head, including the eye, bare and pale, 

 reaching quite to the under mandible ; head, neck, back, wing 

 coverts, and all beneath to the vent scarlet ; second quills, and some 

 of the coverts above them fine deep yellow ; prime quills dusky rose 

 colour, paler towards the ends ; shafts of all the quills white ; lower 

 part of the back, rump, upper and under tail coverts rose-coloured 

 white ; the tail greatly cuneiform, the two middle feathers twenty 

 inches long, the shortest or outer one six inches, the next eight, the 

 third ten inches ; the six middle ones scarlet, the others pale buff red, 

 growing pale yellowish white towards the ends, but the shafts of all 

 are white ; the quills when closed reach about six inches on the tail ; 

 legs stout, pale brown. 



Inhabits Trinidad : brought from that Island by Lord Seaforth, 

 and added to my Collection, but is said to be by no means common. 

 I have never met with a second specimen. 



6— BLUE AND YELLOW MACCAW. 



Psittacus Ararauna, Ind. Om. i. 83. Lin. i. 139. Gm. Lin. i. 313. Scop. Ann. i. No. 



22. Borowsk Nat. ii. 83. t. 5. A. Levaill. Perroq. i. p. 9. pl. 3. 

 Psitt. maxim, cyano-croceus, Raii, p. 28. Id. 181. Sloan. Jam. ii. 296. Will. 72. Bris. 



iT. 193. pl. 20. Id. 8vo. ii. 96. Klein, p. 24. Gerin. pl. 103. Johnst. Av. pl. 15. 



f. 1: 

 L'Ara bleu, Buf. vi. 191. pl. enl. 36. Levaill. Perr, pl. 3. Descr. Surin. ii 174. 

 Le Caninde, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 262. 

 Blue and yellow Maccaw, Ararauna, Gen. Syn. i. 294. Will. Eng. 110. Id. 111. 4. pl. 



15. Shaw's Zool. viii. 391 pl. 54. Edw. p. 159. Alb.W. pl. 17. 



SIZE of the others ; length various, according to the good or bad 

 condition of the tail feathers. Bill black ; irides sea green ; forehead 



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