Identifier: royalnaturalhist47lyde (find matches)
Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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emselves, we come now to asecond very large subfamily, exclusively confined to the New World, and rangingfrom Carolina to Patagonia. These parrots, which include the well-known macawsand the smaller conures, are characterised by their graduated and generally longtails, in which each of the feathers tapers to a point, and the middle pair are longerthan any of the others. The bill is strong, almost always deeper tha^n long, andgenerally devoid of any notch; while its usual colour is whitish or pale brown-Except in one genus, the two sexes are alike; and the predominant colour of theplumage is usually green, although in some species blue or yellow. The cere, whichmay be either naked or feathered, surrounds the wdiole base of the bill like a band,and the nostrils may be either exposed or concealed among the feathers. In theskull the ring round the socket of the eye is generally complete. As there areno less than fifteen genera in the group, only some of the more interesting canbe noticed.
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MACAWS. 3 Hyacintiiine From their large size, the length of their tails, and the gorgeous Macaw. tints of blue, red, and yellow adorning their plumage, the macaws are the most showy and conspicuous of all the parrots ; but they have the disadvantage of being the most noisy of the whole confraternity, and are tlierefore far from

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