| Jamaican Red Macaw | |
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| Hypothetical restoration of a Jamaican Red Macaw by Joseph Smit, 1907. | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Subfamily: | Psittacinae |
| Tribe: | Arini |
| Genus: | Ara |
| Species: | A. gossei |
| Binomial name | |
| Ara gossei Rothschild, 1905 |
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The Jamaican Red Macaw (Ara gossei) may have been a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family that lived on Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.
It is based on the following description of a specimen by Gosse:
Basal half of upper mandible black ; apical half, ash coloured ; lower mandible, black, tip only ash coloured ; forehead, crown, and back of neck, bright yellow ; sides of face, around eyes, anterior and lateral parts of the neck, and back, a fine scarlet ; wing coverts and breast deep sanguine red ; winglet and primaries an elegant light blue. The legs and feet are said to have been black ; the tail, red and yellow intermixed (Rob.)[1]
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