HYACINTHINE MACCAW. S93 



wing: the legs and feet are of a blackish co- 

 lour/' 



This species is less common than the Scarlet 

 Maccaw, of which it has by some been most erro- 

 neously considered as the female. It seems to 

 have been first described by Aldrovandus, from a 

 specimen which he saw in the year 1572> in the 

 palace of the Duke of Mantua. It was brought 

 over from America in 1569, and lived upwards of 

 twenty years. Its death was occasioned by the 

 gout in its feet, which at length swelled, and at 

 intervals were extremely painful ; the bird ex- 

 pressing its sufferings at such times by most la- 

 mentable screams; and in one of these fits it died, 

 in the month of February 1.599. 



HYACINTHINE MACCAtV. 



Psittacus augustus. P. cyaneus, rostro pedibusque nigris, orbitis 

 hasique mandibulx inferioris luteis. Museum Leverianum. No, 2, 



Deep-blue Maccaw, with the bill and legs black ; the orbits and 

 base of the lower mandible yellow. 



Hyacinthine Maccaw. Nat. Misc, vol. pi. 60p. 



Psittacus hyacinthinus. P. macrourus violaceo-coBnikus , capite 

 colloque dilutioribus, orbitis gulaque nudis Jiavis, Lath, ind, orn. 



Hyacinthine Maccaw. Lath, syn. 



This august species, which is a degree larger 

 than the Blue and Yellow Maccaw, was first de^ 

 scribed by myself, in the work entitled Museum 

 Leverianum, from a very fine specimen preserved 

 in that celebrated collection. I must therefore 



