Jamaican Red Macaw
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The Jamaican Red Macaw may have been a species of parrot
in the Psittacidae family that lived on Jamaica
, but its existence is hypothetical.
It is based on the following description of a specimen by Gosse:
Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae...
in the Psittacidae family that lived on Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
, but its existence is hypothetical.
It is based on the following description of a specimen by Gosse: