This slim volume lists all the scientific names of the avian specimens kept in the collection of the Royal University of Berlin at the time.
On Page 73 there appears two entries for the blue macaws as follows:-
Anodorynchus Spix. glaucus Süd Brasilien (southern Brazil) 2 (specimens)
hyacinthinus Para 1 (specimen)
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Nearly thirty years ago I travelled from Bird World in Farnham with a hyacinthine macaw to the BBC studio in West London to take part in the "Going live" programme. I was interviewed by Philip Schofield, who is well known. I have now put the video ... Read More »
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" Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret "
( If you drive out nature with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back)
Horace (65-8 BC)