Violet macaw
| Violet macaw | |
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| Species: | A. purpurascens
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| Anodorhynchus purpurascens Rothschild, 1907
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| Location of Guadeloupe | |
The violet macaw (Anodorhynchus purpurascens) is an hypothetical extinct species of parrot. Its native name was oné couli[1]. It was described by Rothschild and featured in his book, Extinct Birds published in 1907[1]. Rothschild named the species because uniform bluish coloured macaws were said to have inhabited the island of Guadeloupe[1], but the recent tracing of the sources used by Rothschild has evidenced the author based on a poor depiction of the Guadeloupe Amazon by Raymond Breton, a French missionary present in Guadeloupe during the first years of the French colonization[2]. Only the genus Ara is thus known to have colonised the West Indies.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Rothschild, Walter (1907). Extinct Birds. Hutchison, London.
- ^ Lenoble, A. (2015). "The Violet Macaw (Anodorhynchus purpurascens Rothschild, 1905) did not exist". Journal of Caribbean Ornithology. 28: 17–21.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ Hume, J. P.; Walters, M. (2012). Extinct Birds. A & C Black. ISBN 140815725X.
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