Identifier: cassellsbookofbi01breh (find matches)
Title: Cassell's book of birds
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London (etc.), Cassell, Petter and Galpin
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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THE SCARLET MACAW (Am MaClO). 62 cassells book of birds. trees, and is often seen perched upon the branches, sometimes even in heavy storms of rain,which it willingly allows to soak its feathers. During the breeding season it lives in pairs, at othertimes in flocks. The Anakans search the woods for fruit, and very often do great damage to the maize; theirflight is astonishingly rapid, and their voice loud and harsh, but shriller and weaker than that of thelarge Araras. When a party of these birds is perched upon a tree, they utter soft, strange notes, asthough talking together, the sound resembling the murmur of conversation. The male and femaleoften sit in pairs on the high branches. The flesh of this bird is much esteemed, both by nativesand Europeans, and, indeed, is excellent. In the Macaws we have been describing, the prevailing colour of the upper feathers is a moreor less bright green; but in the following genera blue predominates. THE ARARAUNA The Ararauna (Ara Siltace Araraun

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