Parrot or macaw species, possibly the scarlet macaw, Ara macao. De Avibus, de Psittaco, Erythrocyanum. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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