BLUE AND YELLOW MACCAW. 
Psittacus Ararauna. Lyn . Syst. i. p . 15 9 . No. 3 . 
L’AraBleu etJaunedu Bre- Bris. Orn. iv. p. 193 . 
SIL. 
L’Ara Bleu. Buff. Ois. vi. p . 191. 
Blue and Yellow Maccaw. Edw . iv. p. 159. 
Lath. i. p. 204. No. 4 . 
This subject is rather less than the Red and Blue Maccaw : and nature 
has been lavish in clothing it with a plumage so rich and splendid, that it 
is scarcely within the power of the pencil to give an adequate representa- 
tion of its brilliancy. 
The bill is black ; the nostrils are placed on a white cere ; the crown of 
the head is green ; the cheeks and throat are covered with a white skin, 
striped with short black feathers ; the eyelids edged with black ; the irides 
pale yellow : under the bill is a line of black, which encircles the white ; 
the hinder part of the neck, the back, the wings, and upper side of the tail 
are of a rich blue ; the fore part of the neck, the breast, the belly, the thighs, 
and coverts under the tail, are a bright yellow; the hinder part of the 
thighs are blue : in a word, the upper part of the bird is of a most rich 
glossy azure blue, the under part of a bright golden yellow colour* 
The Blue Maccaw never associates with the Red, though they fiequent 
the same situations; their voice is likewise different; neither do they arti- 
culate so plainly as the Red. 
These birds are more subject to the epilepsy and cramp than any otnei 
of the Parrot tribe, more especially such as are confined ; great caution 
should therefore be observed, that they have only a wooden peich, as it has 
been remarked, that such as are in the -habit of resting on perches coveied 
with iron, or tin, are invariably seized with this disordei, which often 
proves fatal to them. 
