Red-headed macaw

The red-headed macaw or Jamaican green-and-yellow macaw (Ara erythrocephala) may have been a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae that lived in Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.

Rothschild based it on a description which a Mr. Hill had sent to Philip Henry Gosse: Head red; neck, shoulders, and underparts of a light and lively green; the greater wing coverts and quills, blue; and the tail scarlet and blue on the upper surface, with the under plumage, both of wings and tail, a mass of intense orange yellow.

The specimen here described was procured in the mountains of Trelawny and St. Anne's by Mr. White, proprietor of the Oxford estate.

[2]Ara erythrocephala could have been found in the mountains of Trelawney and St. Anne's Parishes, Jamaica.

[4] It is believed that the main reason for the macaw's extinction was overhunting.