204 P A R R O T .
4*
BLUE AMD-
YELLOW
MACCAW.
Plittaeus ararauija, Lin. Sjî. i. p. 139. N03*—Scop. ann. i. p. 27. N* 22.
L ’ Ara bleu & jaune du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. 193. t. zo.
L ’Ara bleu, Buf. oif vi. 191.—PI. enl. 36.—Deferip. de Surinam., vol. Ü«
p. 174.
Pßttacus max. cyanocroc.Aldrov. Raii Syn, p. 2$. 1. p. 181. 5;.
Aldrov. blue and yellow Maccaw, Will. orn. p. n o . N° 1.
Brafilian Ararauna, — -------- ——»------- p. 111. N° 4. t. 15*.
Blue and yellow Maccaw, Edw. t. 15.9.
Lev, Muf ;
DE*CR.rrT*aN» MPHIS is about the fize o f the former ones : length two feet
■ feven inches and a half. Bill black r forehead to the crown,,
and the fides of the head, doll green ; the reft of the upper parts,,
to the coverts of the tail, are of a fine blue : cheeks and throat
covered with a bare white fkin ; each cheek is befet with black
lines, compofed of very fhort feathers, which arife at the angles,
of the mouth, and palling beneath the eyes, tend towards the-
hind head t eyelids edged with black : indes- pale yellow from:
the lower part of the neck to the tail the plumage is of a faffron-
colour, and in fome birds there is likewife a mixture o f faffron-
eolour on the wing coverts * : the tail is blue, above, and. the
two middle feathers of one plain colour the reft have the inner
margins inclining to violet, and near the bafe margined with
blackifh t the .tail is much cuneated, as in thofe before noted t
T LACE.
the legs cinereous : claws black.
Inhabits Jamaica, Guiana, Braß, and Surinam.
* This. I obferve to be the cafe in the Planches enluminées.
L’Ara*
L ’Ara bleu & jaune de la Jamaïque, Brif orn. iv. p. 191, N°3.
Pfittac. max. cærul. varius, caudâ produ&â, Brown’s Jam. p. 272..
Blue Maceaw, Albin. iii. c. 10.
A L B 1N fays,, this bird has not thofe feathery lines on the
cheeks and throat which are confpicuous in the others ; and
that the top of the head in this is blue, where in the other it is
of a dull green, otherwife one defcription might ferve but he
errs in fuppofing thig to be the female of the red and Hue Mac-
caw, for it furely can be no other than a mere variety of the laft-
mentioned.
This bird inhabits the fame places with that bird, but is not fo
plenty by far; i.t does not herd with it, nor- do they even meet
together with civility. The inhabitants know the one from the
other by the cry, which is very different, and fay that it does not
pronounce the word ara fo diftinfft as the blue and red Maccaw..,
La Perricbe ara, Buf. oif. vi. p. 277.
■------------------de Cayenne„ PI. enl. 864,
----------------------------- Barr erg Fran, equin. p. 14,5..
BARRERE is the firft who has mentioned this bird.. It is in
length eighteen inches, the tail itfelf me a hiring nine inches.
From the angles of the mouth to' beyond the eyes it is bare of
feathers • the top and fides. of'the head are green, with a mixture
of deep blue, fo as in certain afpefts to appear intirely blue : the
throat, fore part of the neck, and upper part of the break, have
a ftrong tinge of rufous;, the reft of the break, belly, and: fides,
9 green,.
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V a r , A.
BLUE
MACCAW.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Plac.e.,
S*
PARROT
MACCAW.
D E SC R I PTION. .