^98 PARROT MACCAW. 



innumerable flocks, and committing great devas- 

 tation among the coffee- plantations, by devo^uring 

 the ripe berries. The same author adds, that the 

 old birds make an excellent soup, while the young 

 are equally delicate when roasted. This species 

 seems to have been first described by Marcgrave^ 

 under its native name Maracana. Monsr. Levail- 

 lant observes that the figure given in the Planches 

 Enlumin^es, No. 383, instead of a narrow dusky 

 or blackish-purple bar on the forehead, has a broad 

 red one, like that of the former species; and this, 

 he observes, has been evidently done in order to 

 accommodate the plate to Buffon^s description, 

 who confounded it with the preceding species. 



PARROT MACCAW. 



Psittacus Makavouanna. P. viridis, genis nudis alhis, suhtus subru- 



fescens, vertice remigibmque ccerulescentibus. 

 Green Maccaw, with naked white cheeks, beneath subrufescent, 



with blueish crown and wing-feathers. 

 Psittacus Makavouanna. P. macrourm viridis, genis nudis, subtus 



rufescens, abdomine virescente, remigibus carukis, apicibus extus 



fascis. Lath, ind, orn. 

 Perriche Ara. Buf. ois. 

 La Perruche Ara de Cayenne. PI, Enl. 804. 

 L'Ara Macavouanne. LevailL Perr. pi, 7. 

 Parrot Maccaw. Lath, syn. 



Described by Barrere in his France Equi- 

 noxiale^ and from him by Buffon. Length eighteen 

 inches; of which the tail measures nine inches: 

 colour deep brownish green above, except the 



