GREAT GREEN MACCAW. 
When Edwards figured this fine large bird, 
he considered it as a non-descript. " I can 
find," says he, " no account of this bird ; and 
beheve, it has not till now been either figured 
or described." 
This Maccaw, however, Is thought to be the 
Largest Guiana Parrot, mentioned in Ban- 
croft's account of Guiana. It is, certainly, 
the Psittacus MiHtaris, or MIHtary Maccaw, 
of Linnaeus ; as well as of Latham, and other 
late ornithologists. BufFon, indeed, only- 
mentions it as a variety of his Green Ara, and 
assigns it no particular name or description. 
The account which Edwards gives of the 
Great Green Maccaw is as follows — 
This is a bird of the first magnitude 
among Parrots. The wing, when closed, 
was about thirteen inches long: the middle 
feather of the tail was fifteen inches. The 
head 
