108 PARROT. 



to the crown, and sides of the head dull green ; the rest of the 

 upper parts to the tail coverts fine blue ; cheeks and throat covered 

 with a bare white skin, and marked with black lines, composed of 

 very short feathers, which arise at the angles of the mouth, and pass 

 beneath the eyes, towards the hindhead ; eyelids edged with black ; 

 from the lower part of the neck to the vent the plumage is of a saffron- 

 colour ; and in some birds there is also a mixture of the same on the 

 wing coverts ; the tail greatly cuneiform as in the other, blue above, 

 the two middle feathers plain, the rest have the inner margins in- 

 clining to violet ; and near the base margined with blackish ; legs 

 cinereous. 



Inhabits Jamaica, Guiana, Brazil, and Surinam. 



A.— Ara jamaicensis cyaneo-crocea, Bris. iv. 191. id Svo. ii. 96. Brown. Jam. 272. 

 Psittacus caeruleo-luteus, Klein. Av. 24. 2. 

 Blue Maccaw. Gen. Syn. i. p. 205. 4. A. 



This is about two feet and a half in length, and like the last "> 

 the cheeks and chin covered with a white skin, but without the black 

 feathery lines ; it differs from the former also, in having the top of 

 the head blue, instead of dull green, in other respects one description 

 might serve. 



Is said to inhabit the same places, but is less plentiful than the 

 first, and never unites with it in society, the one distinguished from 

 the other from the cry, being totally different, — this appears to be 

 opposite in sex, if not a young bird of the former. 



