112 PARROT. 



Besides the above synonyms, Linnaeus refers to several other 

 authors, all of them corresponding with the Parrot of Amazons, and 

 its varieties; the description above is from the Museum Adolphi. 



Said to inhabit Surinam, but according to Linnaeus, Asia. 



12 —BRAZILIAN GREEN MACCAW. 



Piittacus geverus, Ind. Orn. i. 85. Lin. i, 140. Gm. Lin.'i. 315. Scop. Ann.i, No. 23. 



Borowsk. Nat. ii. p. 89. 

 Ara Braziliensis viridis, Bris. vi. 198. 7d.8vo.ii. 98. 



Ara Braziliensis erythrochlora, Bris.ir. 202. Id. 8vo. ii. 99. Gerin. i. 92. 1. 101. 

 L'Ararert, Buf. vi. 194. pi. 8. PI. enl, 383. 

 Ara Maracana, Levail. Perroq.i. p. 19. pi. 8. 9. 

 Maracana, Raii, p. 29. Will. p. 74. Id. Engl. 112. 5. 6. 

 Brazilian Green Maccaw, Gen. Syn. i. 208. Id. Sup. 58. Edw. pi. 229. Sloan. Jam: 



ii. 297. Shaiv's Zool. viii. 397. 



SIZE of a Crow ; length seventeen inches. Bill black ; on the 

 cheeks a bare white skin, marked with some lines of black ; irides 

 golden yellow ; the general colour of the plumage green ; forehead 

 chestnut purple ; on the lower jaw a stripe of the same ; crown blue; 

 blending itself by degrees with the green backwards ; lower part of 

 the thigh red ; edge of the wing, and under wing coverts crimson, the 

 last paler ; some of the wing coverts and quills blue, and the outer 

 edges of the last beneath dull red ; legs brown. 



The female is said to be wholly green, with no markings of red 

 about her, otherwise does not differ. 



Inhabits Guiana, Brazil, and Jamaica. I have ventured to join 

 both quotations from Brisson, as they differ merely in having the 

 forehead brown ; the crown blue green, and the green colour darker 

 than in the other. Sloane says, they are common in the woods, and 

 eaten as Pigeons, and when young may be tamed and kept as Parrots; 

 large flocks met with in Brazil in the maize-fields, where they do 



