Chestnut-fronted Macaw

Chestnut-fronted Macaw / Ara severus

Chestnut-fronted Macaw

Here the details of the Chestnut-fronted Macaw named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ara severus
Protonym:  Psittacus severus Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.97
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae /
Taxonomy Code:  chfmac1
Type Locality:  Indies, error, Amazon River substituted by Hellmayr, antea, p. 578.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ARA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Scarlet Macaw A. macao) Tupí onomatopoeia Ará for the macaws, but also used in combination to indicate bird (e.g. Araçarí, Araponga). Arára is a general name for parrots. "PREMIER GENRE.  ARA. (Ara.)  Le bec gros et convexe; la mandibule supérieure pointue, recourbée sur l'inférieure, et mobile; la langue épaisse, charnue et arrondie à son extrémité; une place dénuée de plumes sur chaque joue.   ESPÈCES.  1. L'ara rouge. Ara Macao. XI, 250.  2. L'ara bleu. Ara ararauna. XI, 272.  3. L'ara verd. Ara severus. XI, 274.  4. L'ara noir. Ara ater. XI, 284.  5. Le petit ara rouge. Ara aracanga. XI, 259.  6. La perriche ara. Ara makawuanna. XI, 384." (de Lacépède 1799); "Ara Lacépède, Tableaux Ois., 1799, p. 1. Type, by subsequent designation, Psittacus macao Linné. (Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 50, pt. 7, 1916, p. 119.)" (Peters, 1937, III, p. 180).   
Synon. Aracanga, Araclanga, Ararauna, Hemipsittacus, Macao, Macrocercus, Maracanus, Paracus.

severus
L. severus  grim, stern, grave, austere.
● Based on "Papegoja trumpen," surly parrot, of Linnaeus 1754; "44. PSITTACUS.  ...  severus.  5. P. macrourus viridis, genis nudis, remigibus rectricibusque cæruleis subtus purpurascentibus. Mus. Ad. Fr. I. p. 13.  Habitat in Indiis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Ara).