5,000 year old cave paintings of macaws
Type specimen in Vienna acquired by auction in London in 1806
Head of type specimen in Vienna
Plate of Hyacinthine Macaw from Shaw's Museum Leverianum published 1792-6
Head study from above plate
Hyacinthine Macaw in a cabinet painted by Leroy de Barde in 1810
Illustration of Hyacinthine Macaw at Knowsley by Sydenham Edwards produced between 1810 and 1812)
Illustration from Latham's General History of Birds (1821-8)
Depiction of blue macaw, probably Hyacinthine Macaw, in Atlas by von Martius, published 1823-31
Depiction of Hyacinthine Macaw by Edouard Traviès signed and dated 1834
Hyacinthine Macaw depicted in Bourjot-St Hilaire's Histoire Naturelle des
Perroquets (1837-8)
Head study of the above illustration from Bourjot St Hilaire
Hyacinthine Macaw depicted by J.T.Descourtilz published 1854-6
Hyacinthine Macaw depicted by Reichenow published 1883
Hyacinthine Macaw depicted by Russ published in 1884
Hyacinthine Macaw depicted in Greene's "Parrots in Captivity" published 1884-7
Hyacinthine Macaw depicted in Lydekkers "Royal Natural History" published in 1895
Hyacinthine Macaws nesting depicted in Lydekkers "Royal Natural History" published in 1895
Images of the Blue Macaws and their Habitats
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