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The Blue and Tel/ow M a c c a w. 
T HIS Bird is a little lefs than the laft defcribed, and according to my Judgment is the 
fecond in Magnitude of the Parrot-Kind ; it Teems to equal a middle-fized Domeftick 
Cock, and in Shape agrees with the foregoing. 
The Bill is arched, the upper Part hooked and hanging over the Nether, and is all of a 
black Colour •, the Noftrils are placed at the Bafe of the upper Mandible, in. a white bare Skin, 
which extends itfelf on the Sides of the Head, all round the Eyes, and a good Way beneath 
them. Thefe white bare Plats of Skin on the Sides of the Head are variegated with fine Lines 
of fmall black Feathers, which appear like Needle-Work. The Circle round the Eye is of a 
pa'e yellow Colour. It hath immediately under the Bill a large black Spot, which turns 
round and upwards on its Sides, and encompalfes Part of the bare white Space on the Sides 
of the Head, as the Figure will better exprefs. The Feathers on the Top of the Head are 
Green, which gradually become Blue on the Neck. The upper Side of the Neck, the Back, 
and upper Sides of the Wings and Tail, are of an exceeding fine blue Colour, with fome 
little Variation of Shade, viz. the lefier Coverts of the Wings, and the Rump, are a little 
tindtured with Green, and the Tail and Quill-Feathers, on their upper Sides, a little tindtured 
with Purple •, all the blue Feathers of the Back, Wing and Tail, are of a reddilh Yellow on 
their under Sides. The Fore-part of the Neck, the Breaft, Belly, Thighs, and Covert-Fea¬ 
thers under the Tail, are of a fine Yellow-Orange-Colour, except the Hinder-part of the 
Thighs, where there is a little Blue intermixed. The Covert-Feathers within Side the Wings 
are Yellow, which appears outwardly on the Ridge or Joint, in the upper Part of the Wing, 
The Legs and Feet are made as the Figure exprefies them •, all of a blackifh or dufky 
Colour. 
My Drawing was taken fome Years fince, from the living Bird, at his Grace the Duke 
of Richmond’s Houfe, Whitehall. This is more rare than the Red Maccaw. It is the 
Araracanga of the Brafilians. See Marcgrave’ s Hificry ofBraJil> P. 206. Albin has given a 
very imperfect Figure of this Bird, and erroneoufiy calls it the Hen Maccaw , fuppofing it to 
be the Hen of the Scarlet and Blue Maccaw. See his Plifiory, Vol. III. P. 10. 
To illuftrate the Hiftory of Maccaws , I cannot help borrowing from Commodore fnow 
Lord) Anfon s Voyage, a beautiful Paffage, which defcribes a Water-fall in the Ifland of 
phdbo. “ Near the N. E. Point of the Ifiand they difcovered a natural Cafcade, which fur- 
“ palled (as they conceived) every Thing of this Kind, which human Art or Induftry, hath 
hitherto produced. It was a River of tranfparent Water, about forty Yards wide, which 
“ ran down a Declivity of near a hundred and fifty Yards in Length. The Channel it ran 
“ in was very Irregular, for it was intirely formed of Rock-, both its Sides and Bottom being 
“ made up of large detached Blocks, and by thefe the Courfe of the Water was frequently 
“ interrupted, for in fome Places it ran Hoping, with a rapid, but uniform Motion, while in 
“ other Parts it tumbled over the Ledges of Rocks with a perpendicular Defcent. All the 
44 Neighbourhood of this Stream was a fine Wood, and even the huge Maffes of Rock, which 
“ hung over the Water, and which by their various Projections formed the Inequalities of the 
“ Channel, were covered with lofty Foreft-Trees. While the Commodore, and thofe who 
u were with him attentively viewing the Place, were remarking the different Blendings of the 
“ Waters, the Rocks, and the Woods, there came in Sight (as it were flill to heighten and 
44 animate the Profpedt) a prodigious Flight of Maccaws , which hovering over this Spot, and 
“ often wheeling and playing on the Wing about it, afforded a moft brilliant Appearance, by 
44 the Glittering of the Sun on their variegated Plumage ; fo that fome of the Spectators can- 
not refrain from a Kind of Tranfport when they recount the complicated Beauties which 
occurr’d in this extraordinary Water-fall.” 
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