ERASILIAN GREEN MACCAW. 
it is very rare ; for I have only seen this one, 
in mv searches after forei2;n animals." 
In confcjrmity with this idea of Edwards, 
BufFon commences his account of this bird, 
his Green Ara, with observing that it is much 
rarer, as well as smaller, than [he Red and the 
Blue Aras, or Maccaws. It consists, he as- 
serts, of only one species : though nomencla- 
tors have divided it into two; because they 
confound it with the Green Parroquet, which 
they call the Ara Parroquet, on account of the 
length of it's tail, and it's distinctly articu- 
lating the word " Ara." But, notwithstand- 
ing these properties, it is still a Parroquet, and 
very common in Cavenne ; whereas the Green 
Ara is there altogether unknown. Sloane 
says, that the Little Maccaw, or Little Green 
Ara, is very common in the woods of Jamaica. 
But Edwards properly observes, that this is cer- 
tainly a mistake ; " because, thougli he made 
several applications, he could procure none 
from his correspondents in that island. Per- 
haps," adds Butfbn, " Sloane confounded the 
Long-l'ailed Green Parroquet witli the Green 
Ara." 
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