Saint Croix Macaw

Taxobox
name = Saint Croix Macaw
status = EX
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Psittaciformes
familia = Psittacidae
subfamilia = Arinae
genus = "Ara"
species = "A. autochthones"
binomial = "Ara autochthones"
binomial_authority = Wetmore, 1937cite journal | last = Wetmore | first = A. | title = Ancient records of birds from the island of St. Croix with observations on extinct and living of Puerto Rico.| journal = J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico | volume = 21 | pages = 5–16 | date = 1937]
synonyms= "Ara autocthones" (lapsus)The Saint Croix Macaw ("Ara autochthones") is an extinct species of bird in the parrot family which is known from fossils found in one site in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and another in central Puerto Rico . The species was describes from a sub-fossil left tibiotarsus found in the kitchen middens at Concordia, which is near Southwest Cape.cite journal | last = Wetmore | first = A. | title = A check-list of the fossil and prehistoric birds of North America and the West Indies. | journal = Smithson. Misc. Coll. | volume = 131 | issue = 5 | pages = 1–105 | date = 1956] cite book | first= Joseph M.| last= Forshaw| coauthors= Cooper, William T.|year= 1981|origyear=1973, 1978|edition=corrected second edition| title= Parrots of the World|publisher=David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London|id=ISBN 0-7153-7698-5|pages=p. 368] Additional material found by Máiz López in 1987 has been assigned to this species.cite journal|quotes= no|last= Olson|first= Storrs L.|coauthors= Edgar J. Máiz López|year= 2008|title= New evidence of Ara autochthones from an archeological site in Puerto Rico: a valid species of West Indian macaw of unknown geographical origin (Aves: Psittacidae)|journal= Caribbean Journal of Science|volume= 44|issue= 2|pages= 215-222|url= http://caribjsci.org/July08/44_215-222.pdf]

Although the species has only been recorded from St. Croix and Puerto Rico, in both cases it was recovered from Amerindian village sites. Williams and Steadman considered it possible that the species may have been native to St. Croix,cite book|last=Williams|first=Matthew I.|coauthors= David W. Steadman|editor= Woods, Charles A. and Florence E. Sergile (eds.)|title= Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives|edition=2nd Edition|year= 2001|publisher= CRC Press|location= Boca Raton, FL|isbn= 0849320011|pages=175-189|chapter=The historic and prehistoric distribution of parrots (Psittacidae) in the West Indies] but Olson and Máiz López consider that to be unlikely.

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* [http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=feol;subview=fullcitation;idno=UF00001516 Catalogue of Fossil Birds by Pierce Brodkorb, Part 4: Order Psittaciformes]