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macaw

Polyoutis, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Blue_and_Gold_Macaw_skeleton.jpg

IMAGE INFORMATION

Handsomely prepared skeleton of the Maccaw, Dissected for the Museum

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

November 28, 1806

Primary Source Reference:

Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia), 28 Nov 1807

Notes:

Macaws are a group of New World parrots in six genera of the family Psittacidae. The Museum display of an unidentified macaw skeleton may have resembled the skeleton pictured here of the blue and gold macaw (Ara araruna) at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City.

Specimen Type:

Skeletons/skulls/bones

Peale's Common Name:

Maccaw

Current Common Name:

Blue and gold macaw

Current Scientific Name

Ara araruna