liRASILIAN GREEN MACCAW. 
and strong. Between the green feathers on 
the thighs, and the black skin of the legs, 
are placed rings of scarlet feathers, which the 
adion of the printed figure doth not give leave 
to shew. 
*' This bird," remarks Edwards, " has not 
till now been figured, though it has been pretty 
v/ell described by Marcgrave. (See Piso's Na- 
tural History of Brasil.) He >ays, that it's cry 
is *' Oe, Oe, Oe.'' Our countryman, Mr. 
Willughby, in his Ornithology, has given us 
an English translation of Marcgrave's descrip- 
tion : it is his Second Maracana. 
Edwards adds- — My original is drawn af- 
ter nature, of the size of life ; though reduced, 
in order to bring it into the copper-plate. It 
was (A. D. 1752.) the property of the Right 
Honourable the Lord Carpenter, who^was so 
good as to lend it me, to make a drawing of it. 
Sir Hans Sloane seems to hint, that his Small 
Maccaw, mentioned in his History of Jamaica, 
is the same with the above described: though, 
I tiiink, if it were . a native of Jvuiiaica, we 
should sec it more common in England, where 
it 
