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{{Short description|Species of bird}}
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| image = Ara gossei.png
| image = Ara gossei.png
| image_caption = Hypothetical restoration of a Jamaican red macaw by [[Joseph Smit]], 1907
| image_caption = Hypothetical restoration of a Jamaican red macaw by [[Joseph Smit]], 1907
| status = EX
| taxon = Ara gossei
| extinct = yes
| status_system = IUCN3.1
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| classification_status = disputed
| status_ref = <ref>BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/150545/0 Ara gossei]. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627000000/http://www.iucnredlist.org/ |date=2014-06-27 }} Downloaded on 24 July 2007.</ref>
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| classification_status =
| genus = Ara
| species = gossei
| authority = [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Rothschild]], 1905
| authority = [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Rothschild]], 1905
| range_map = LocationJamaica.svg
| range_map = LocationJamaica.svg
| range_map_caption = Location of Jamaica
| range_map_caption = Location of Jamaica
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The '''Jamaican red macaw''' (''Ara gossei'') may have been a species of [[parrot]] in the family [[Psittacidae]] that lived on [[Jamaica]], but its existence is hypothetical.
The '''Jamaican red macaw''' (''Ara gossei'') is a [[Hypothetical species|hypothetical]] species of [[parrot]] in the family [[Psittacidae]] that lived on [[Jamaica]].
[[File:Macaw in Jamaica.jpg|thumb|left|Possible depiction from 1765]]
[[File:Macaw in Jamaica.jpg|thumb|Possible depiction from 1765]]
==History==
The only reported specimen was shot on Jamaica around 1765, and was later seen by a Dr. Robertson when it was stuffed. It is now lost. Robertson sent a description of it to [[Philip Henry Gosse]], who published his own description in 1847:<ref name="Extinct Birds">{{cite book
The only reported specimen was shot on Jamaica around 1765, and was later seen by a Dr. Robertson when it was stuffed; the specimen has since been lost. Robertson sent a description of it to [[Philip Henry Gosse]], who published his own description in 1847:<ref name="Extinct Birds">{{cite book
| last1 = Hume
| last1 = Hume
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|title= Extinct Birds
|title= Extinct Birds
|publisher= A & C Black
|publisher= A & C Black
|isbn=140815725X}}</ref>
|isbn=978-1408157251}}</ref>
{{Quotation|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.)<ref>https://archive.org/details/extinctbirdsatte00roth</ref>}}
{{Quote|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.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/extinctbirdsatte00roth|title = Extinct birds : An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : That is, within the last six or seven hundred years : To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction|year = 1907}}</ref>}}
Robertson stated the bird had never been seen or figured before, and that it was very different from any [[macaw]] he had ever seen. One 1765 illustration is thought to depict this bird, but has also been suggested to be an imported Cuban macaw.<ref name = Olson>{{cite journal|last= Olson|first= S. L.|author2= E. J. Maíz López|year= 2008|title= New evidence of ''Ara autochthones'' from an archeological site in Puerto Rico: a valid species of West Indian macaw of unknown geographical origin (Aves: Psittacidae)|journal= Caribbean Journal of Science|volume= 44|issue= 2|pages= 215–222|url= http://caribjsci.org/July08/44_215-222.pdf|format=pdf}}</ref> The parrot was considered identical to the [[Cuban macaw]] by some 19th-century naturalists, but was given its own binomial by Rothschild in 1905.<ref name="Extinct Birds"/>
Robertson stated the bird had never been seen or figured before, and that it was very different from any [[macaw]] he had ever seen. One 1765 illustration is thought to depict this bird, but has also been suggested to be an imported Cuban macaw.<ref name = Olson>{{cite journal|last= Olson|first= S. L.|author2= E. J. Maíz López|year= 2008|title= New evidence of ''Ara autochthones'' from an archeological site in Puerto Rico: a valid species of West Indian macaw of unknown geographical origin (Aves: Psittacidae)|journal= Caribbean Journal of Science|volume= 44|issue= 2|pages= 215–222|url= http://caribjsci.org/July08/44_215-222.pdf|doi=10.18475/cjos.v44i2.a9 |s2cid= 54593515|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110725141152/http://caribjsci.org/July08/44_215-222.pdf|archive-date= 2011-07-25}}</ref> The parrot was considered identical to the [[Cuban macaw]] by some 19th-century naturalists, but was given its own binomial by Rothschild in 1905.<ref name="Extinct Birds"/>


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Latest revision as of 05:17, 30 July 2024

Jamaican red macaw
Hypothetical restoration of a Jamaican red macaw by Joseph Smit, 1907
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(disputed)
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Ara
Species:
†A. gossei
Binomial name
†Ara gossei
Location of Jamaica

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

Possible depiction from 1765

History

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The only reported specimen was shot on Jamaica around 1765, and was later seen by a Dr. Robertson when it was stuffed; the specimen has since been lost. 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.)[2]

Robertson stated the bird had never been seen or figured before, and that it was very different from any macaw he had ever seen. 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.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Hume, J. P.; Walters, M. (2012). Extinct Birds. A & C Black. ISBN 978-1408157251.
  2. ^ "Extinct birds : An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : That is, within the last six or seven hundred years : To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction". 1907.
  3. ^ Olson, S. L.; E. J. Maíz López (2008). "New evidence of Ara autochthones from an archeological site in Puerto Rico: a valid species of West Indian macaw of unknown geographical origin (Aves: Psittacidae)" (PDF). Caribbean Journal of Science. 44 (2): 215–222. doi:10.18475/cjos.v44i2.a9. S2CID 54593515. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-25.
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