Tin- 
1IYAC1NTI11NE MACCAW. 
♦++**+ + %M-++*+++++ + + + + + 4» 
Gf.NFRIC Character. 
Bill hooked : upper mandible moveable, and 
furnished with a cere. 
Nostrils round, placed at the base ol (lie bill. 
'Tongue fleshy, broad, blunt at the end. 
Feet scansorial. 
Specific Character, 
Long-tailed deep-blue MACCAW, with (lie bill 
and legs black ; the orbits and base ol the 
lower mandible yellow. 
HYACINTH INE M ACC A W. 
Museum. Bcveritzniun. No. 2. pi. 2. 
Lath. ind. orn. p. 84. 
This extremely rare bird, which surpasses in ilie 
magnificence of its appearance almost all t he rest ol 
the Parrot tribe, is preserved in the Levcrian Mu¬ 
seum. The whole bird is of a very line deep blue, 
except that the forehead and edges of the wing-lea¬ 
thers have a slight cast of sea-green. Ihc under 
p a surface 
