Red-tailed Blue-and-Yellow Macaw

Taxobox
name = Red-tailed Blue-and-Yellow Macaw

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status = EX
image_caption = Painting by John Gerrard Keulemans
status_system =
extinct =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Psittaciformes
familia = Psittacidae
subfamilia = Psittacinae
tribus = Arini
genus = "Ara"
species = "A. erythrura"
binomial = "Ara erythrura"
binomial_authority = (Rothschild, 1907)
synonyms =

The Red-tailed Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, "Ara erythrura", is an hypothetical extinct species of parrot that may have been native to Jamaica or Martinique.cite web| publisher =The Extinction Website (2008) |url = http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/redtailedmacaw.htm |title = Species Info: "Ara erythrura" |accessdaymonth = 8 October | accessyear = 2008] This species has been described by Walter Rothschild in 1907, but J.C. Greenway suggested that, if anything, "Ara erythrura" is a synonym of the Martinique Macaw. He regarded Rothschild`s description, which is based on Rochefort (1658), as not credible because Rochefort had not visited Jamaica but "seems to have taken his account from du Tertre".cite web| publisher =The Extinction Website (2008) |url = http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/redtailedmacaw.htm |title = Species Info: "Ara erythrura" |accessdaymonth = 8 October | accessyear = 2008] Greenway, J. C. 1958. Extinct and vanishing birds of the world. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection 13, New York.] Williams, M. I. & D. V. Steadman (2001): The historic and prehistoric distribution of parrots (Psittacidae) in the West Indies. Pp 175-489 in Biogeography of the West Indies: patterns and perspectives. 2nd ed. (Woods, C. A. & F. E. Sergile, eds.) Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.]

References

External links

* [http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/redtailedmacaw.htm The Extinction Website - Species Info - Red-tailed Blue-and-Yellow Macaw] .