MILITARY MACCAW. 



Psittacus militaris. P. mridis front e rubro, genis nudis, remigibiis 

 vropygioque cceruleisj rectricibus rubris apice cxruleis. 



Green Maccaw, with red forehead, naked cheeks, blue quill- 

 feathers and rump, and red tail-feathers tipped with blue. 



Psittacus miHtaris. P. macrourus viridis, alls ccerulds, f route cau- 

 daque rubris, genis Jiudis lineis plumosis, Lin, Spt> Nat, Lath, 

 syn. 



Great Green Maccaw. Edw. pi. 313. 



Le Grand Ara militaire. Levaill, Perr. pi, 6. 



Military Maccaw. Lath, syn. 



The first description of this species seems to be 

 that of Edwards, who represents it as a Maccaw 

 of the first magnitude, the wing, when closed, 

 measuring about thirteen inches in length, and the 

 middle tail-feathers about fifteen ; the general pro- 

 portions of the bird seeming to be similar to the 

 species before described. The head, says Ed- 

 wards, was large in proportion to the bird : the 

 bill was of a dusky colour, pretty strong, the 

 upper mandible pretty much hooked, having an- 

 gles on each side: the tongue dusky, round, and 

 soft : the nostrils small, placed in a narrow whitish 

 skin that wholly surrounded the bill : on each side 

 of the head was a pretty broad portion of skin, 

 bare of feathers, of a flesh-colour, with several 

 oblique lines under the eyes, composed of minute 

 black feathers : the eyes are placed in these bare 

 parts of the head : their irides are bright yellow ; 

 the pupils black: the forehead, adjoining to the 



