Guadeloupe Macaw
| Guadeloupe Macaw † | ||||||||||
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Etching by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre . Violet Amazon (above), Guadeloupe Macaw (in the middle) |
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| Ara guadeloupensis | ||||||||||
| Clark , 1905 |
The Guadeloupe Macaw ( Ara guadeloupensis ) is an extinct parrot species from the genus of the real macaws . It was first mentioned in 1654 and 1667 by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre and then in 1742 by Jean-Baptiste Labat . The first scientific description was in 1905 by Austin Hobart Clark . The bird is said to have been colored similar to the scarlet macaw , but it was significantly smaller, with a red tail and yellow wing markings. The species was endemic to the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, which belong to the Lesser Antilles . Rothschild described the two forms Anadorhynchus (sic.) Purpurascens of Guadeloupe (based on a travelogue by Don Manuel de Navarrete from 1838) and Anadorhynchus (sic.) Martinicus of Martinique (based on Bouton's records from 1640). However, there is no reliable evidence that these two (hypothetical) taxa differ from Ara guadeloupensis . The Guadeloupe macaw was extremely rare as early as 1760 and was soon exterminated by heavy hunting.
literature
- Walter Rothschild: Extinct Birds , 1907
- James Greenway: Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World , 1967
- Austin Hobart Clark: Note on the Guadeloupe Macaw (Ara guadeloupensis), 1905
- Charles A. Woods & Florence E. Sergile: Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives , 2001. ISBN 0-8493-2001-1