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larger quill-feathers, which are blue, edged with 

 green, and tipped with brown : head green, with 

 a cast of deep blue, appearing blue in some lights: 

 cheeks bare and whitish : throat and breast tinged 

 with rufous : remainder of the under parts of a 

 paler green than the upper : lower part of the ab- 

 domen, and vent-feathers, reddish brown : under 

 parts both of wings and tail yellowish-green : bill 

 and legs blackish. Native of Cayenne, where it is 

 considered as a migratory bird. It frequents the 

 overflowed savannahs, and feeds on the fruits of 

 the Palmetto. Its native name is Makavouanne, 



BLACK MACCAW. 



Psittacus ater. Fsiltacus macrourus nigricans^ xiridi-splendidis- 

 simuSf rostro oculisque ruhentihus, pedibus Jiavis, Lath. ind. orn. 



Blackish Maccaw, with a strong gloss of green, reddish eyes and 

 bill, and yellow legs. 



Ararauna, ou Machao. Be Laet, descr, des Ind. occ. p, 4Q0, 



Ara Noir. Buff, ois. 



Black Maccaw. Lath, syn. 



Described by Buffon, but merely from report : 

 said to be a native of Guiana, and supposed by 

 BufFon to be the same with the Ararauna or 

 Machao of De Laet in his Description des Indes 

 Occidentales, and which is said to be of a black 

 colour, but so blended with green as to appear 

 very splendid in the sunshine : bill and eyes red- 

 dish ; legs yellowish. It is said to differ from the 

 rest of the Maccaws in never approaching the set- 



