CAROLINA ARARA. 
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quently be seen rolling and fluttering about in tbe 
dust, at times picking up and swallowing a limited 
quantity. The lochs and saline springs are also con- 
stantly frequented by them, salt appearing equally 
agreeable to them as to pigeons, and various other 
birds and animals. The bill of tbe Carolina Arara 
is very hard and strong, the tip much thicker and 
rounder than in the Psittacara group ; the tooth, or 
angular process of the upper mandible, is well and 
strongly defined ; the colour white. Tbe irides are 
hazel, the orbital skin whitish. The legs and feet 
are of a pale flesh red ; the claws dusky. The fore- 
head, cheeks, and periphthetonic region, are of a 
vivid orange red, the rest of the head and neck gam- 
boge yellow ; the shoulder and ridge of the wings 
yellow, varied with spots of orange red. The up- 
per plumage is of a fine emerald green, with purple 
and blue reflections. The greater wing-coverts are 
deeply margined with greenish-yellow. The under 
plumage is a fine pale siskin or yellowish-green. The 
greater quills have their outer webs bluish-green, 
passing into bright yellow at the base. The inner 
webs are hair brown, slightly tinged with green near 
their tips. The tail is green, the inner webs of the 
lateral feathers tinged with brownish-red. The fea- 
thers of the tibiae are yellow, passing into orange at 
the joint. In length it averages about 14 inches; 
in extent of wings 22 inches. 
