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stream was a fine wood, and even the huge masses 

 of rock which hung over the water, and which by 

 their various projections formed the inequalities of 

 the channel, were covered with lofty forest-trees. 

 While the Commodore and those who were with 

 him attentively viewing the place, were remark- 

 ing the different blendings of the waters, the 

 rocks, and the woods, there came in sight, as it 

 were, still to heighten and animate the prospect, 

 a prodigious flight of Maccaws, which hovering 

 over this spot, and often wheeling and playing on 

 the wing about it, afforded a most brilliant ap- 

 pearance, by the glittering of the sun on their 

 variegated plumage; so that some of the spec- 

 tators cannot refrain from a kind of transport 

 when they recount the complicated beauties which 

 occurred in this extraordinary water-fall." 



BLUE AND YELLOW MACCAW. 



Fsittacus Ararauiia. P. supra ccerulcus, suhtus luteus, gems nudis, 



lineis plumosis iiigris. 

 Blue Maccaw, deep yellow beneath, with naked cheeks marked 



by black piuiny lines. 

 PsiUacus Ararauna. P. supra cccruleuSf subtus luteus, genis nudis, 



lineis phimosis^ Lin. Si/st. Nat. 

 Ararauna. Marcgr. Bras. 

 Psittacus maximus cyano-croceus. Aldr. Will. 

 Blue and Yellow Maccaw. Edw.pl. \5Q. Lath, syn, 

 L'Ara bleu. Bnff. ois. PL Enl. 36. Lamll. Ferr. pJ, 3o 



This beautiful bird is but very little inferior 

 in point of size to the preceding, which it also re« 

 V. VIII. p. II, 26 



