BLUE AND YELLOW MACCAW. 



sembles in its general shape and proportions. It 

 is described in the following manner by Edwards. 



" The bill is arched, the upper part hooked and 

 hanging over the nether, and is all of a black 

 colour : the nostrils are placed at the base of the 

 upper mandible, in a white bare skin, which ex* 

 tends itself on the sides of the head all round the 

 eyes, and a good way beneath them : these white 

 bare plats of skin on the sides of the head are 

 variegated with fine lines of small black feathers, 

 which appear like needle-work : the circle round 

 the eye is of a pale yellow colour : it hath imme- 

 diately under the bill a large black spot, which 

 turns round and upwards on its sides, and encom- 

 passes part of the bare white space on the sides of 

 the head : the feathers on the top of the head are 

 green, which gradually become blue on the neck: 

 the upper side of the neck, the back, and upper 

 sides of the wings and tail are of an exceeding fine 

 blue colour, with some little variation of shade, 

 viz. the lesser coverts of the wings and the rump 

 are a little tinctured with green, and the tail and 

 - quill-feathers on their upper sides a little tinctured 

 with purple : all the blue feathers of the back, 

 wings, and tail are of a reddish yellow on their 

 under sides : the fore-part of the neck, the breast, 

 belly, thighs, and covert-feathers under the tail, 

 are of a fine yellow-orange-colour, except the 

 hinder part of the thighs, where there is a little 

 blue intermixed: the covert-feathers withinside 

 the wings are yellow, which appears outwardly 

 on the ridge or joint in the upper part of the 



