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PATAGONIAN ARARA. 
congener the Carolina Arara, it is continually utter- 
ing its piercing screams, as well when perched as upon 
wing. It is easily tamed, and can be taught to imi- 
tate the human voice, but more imperfectly than some 
of its congeners, on which account it is held in slight 
estimation, and but seldom domesticated by the in- 
habitants. In Patagonia, it extends nearly as far as 
the straits of Magellan, a southern latitude much 
higher than any frequented by this tribe in the 
northern hemisphere, where the limit of their distri- 
bution rarely extends beyond the 32d degree. The 
drawing from which our plate is engraved, was taken 
by Mr Lear, from a living specimen in the Zoologi- 
cal Gardens, and though inferior in scale, possesses 
perhaps as much of life and character as that con- 
tained in his large and beautiful work, “ Illustrations 
of the Psittacidse.” The bill is of a blackish colour, 
short and thick at the base. The orbits are naked 
and white, the space between the bill and eyes fea- 
thered, the head and upper part of the neck are 
blackish-green, tinged with yellow around the eyes, 
the lower neck is greenish-grey, succeeded by a pec- 
toral collar or gorget of greenish-white, the lower 
part of the breast is deep greenish-grey. The sides 
and flanks are yellow, upon the thighs tinged with 
green. The middle of the abdomen is vermilion red. 
The back and lesser wing coverts are dusky yellow- 
ish-green, the greater coverts and secondary quills 
are bluish-green, narrowly margined with yellow. 
The tail is long and lanceolate, of a dingy yellowish- 
