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
