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ARA ERYTHROCEPHALA ROTHSCH. 



(Plate 12.) 



Ara militaris Gosse, Birds of Jamaica, p. 261 (1847). 



Ara erythrocephala Rothsch., Bull. B.O.C., XVI, p. 14 (1905) ; Proc. IV Orn. Congr., 

 p. 201 (1907). 



GOSSE says the description given to him in a letter, just received from 

 Mr. Hill, was as follows : — " Head red ; neck, shoulders, and 

 underparts of a light and lively green ; the greater wing coverts and 

 quills, blue; and the tail scarlet and blue on the upper surface, with the 

 under plumage, both of wings and tail, a mass of intense orange yellow." 



" The specimen here described was procured in the mountains of 

 Trelawny and St. Anne's by Mr. White, proprietor of the Oxford estate." 

 No specimen now known. 

 Habitat: Jamaica. 



Mr. Gosse also relates that the Rev. Mr. Coward, in 1842, saw two 

 large Macaws flying near the foot of the mountains in the parish of 

 St. James, near the centre of the island. These birds were said to have 

 been blue and yellow ; if so, probably they were my Ara erythrura, whose 

 precise island home is unknown. 



ARA MARTINICUS ( rothsch.) 



(Plate 14.) 



Les Aras Pere Bouton, Rel. de l'etab. d. Francais dep. 1635, en Tile Martinique, 

 pp. 71.72 (1640) 



Anadorhynchus martinicus Rothsch. Bull. B.O.C. XVI, p. 14 (1905); Proc. IV Orn. Congr., 

 p. 202 (1907.) 



PERE BOUTON says, " Les Aras sont deux ou trois fois gros comme 

 les Perroquets et ont un plumage bien different en couleur. Ceux 

 que j'ai vus avaient les plumes leleucs et orangees." 

 No specimen preserved. 



Habitat : Martinique. 



