ERASILIAN GREEN ilACCAW. 
and improves beside them. It's cry is like that 
of the other Aras ; only it's voice is not nearh'^ 
so strong, and does not articulate so distincilY 
the word Ara." 
" It is said, that Bitter Almonds will kill 
Parrots, but I am not certain of the fa6l : I 
know, however, that, Parsley, of which they 
are very fond, if taken even in small quantities, 
is verv pernicious"; as soon as they eat it, a thick 
viscous liquor runs from the bill, and they die 
in an hour or two. 
*' Itappears," concludes BufFon, *Vthat there 
if the same variety in the Green Aras as in the 
Red; at least, Edwards has described *' a Great 
Green Maccaw," which is thirteen inches long, 
and hftcen to the middle feather of the tail. 
The face was red; the quills of the wing blue, 
and also the lower part of the back and the rump. 
Edwards calls the colour of the under surface 
of t]ie\flng and of the tail, '*dull orange," and 
it is probably the same with that dull oiange 
red which we perceived below the wings of our 
Green Ara. The feathers of the tail, in that 
of Edwards, were red above, and tcrmln.Ucd 
by blue." 
