aracanga

ARACANGA, in Ornithology, a ſpecies of Psittacus, or parrot, in the Linnæan ſyſtem; the Aracanga of Marcgrave, the Aracanga Maccaw of Willughby, Ara Jamaicenſis of Briſſon, Petit Ara rouge of Buffon, Jamaica Maccaw of Albinus and Brown, red and yellow Maccaw of Bancroft and Latham. It is of a pale ſcarlet colour, with naked wrinkly cheeks;