Jamaican red macaw

The Jamaican red macaw (Ara gossei) is a hypothetical species of parrot in the family Psittacidae that lived on Jamaica.

Robertson sent a description of it to Philip Henry Gosse, who published his own description in 1847:[1] 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.

One 1765 illustration is thought to depict this bird, but has also been suggested to be an imported Cuban macaw.

[3] The parrot was considered identical to the Cuban macaw by some 19th-century naturalists, but was given its own binomial by Rothschild in 1905.

Possible depiction from 1765