. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. [Bull.Brit. Orn.Cl.1987 107(1)} 28 Great Green Macaw Ara ambigua collected in northwest Ecuador, with taxonomic comments on Ara militaris by Jon Fjeldsd, Niels Krabbe and Robert S. Ridgely Received 30 April 1986 According to the literture (eg. Forshaw 1973, Meyer de Schauensee 1966) a substantial gap exists between the range of the nominate subspecies of Ara ambigua (Great Green, or Buffon's Macaw), which is not recorded definitely south of northern Choco in northwestern Colombia (southernmost recorded locality apparently Nuqui), and A.a.
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. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. [Bull.Brit. Orn.Cl.1987 107(1)} 28 Great Green Macaw Ara ambigua collected in northwest Ecuador, with taxonomic comments on Ara militaris by Jon Fjeldsd, Niels Krabbe and Robert S. Ridgely Received 30 April 1986 According to the literture (eg. Forshaw 1973, Meyer de Schauensee 1966) a substantial gap exists between the range of the nominate subspecies of Ara ambigua (Great Green, or Buffon's Macaw), which is not recorded definitely south of northern Choco in northwestern Colombia (southernmost recorded locality apparently Nuqui), and A.a. guayaquilensis, known only from the type. Figure 1. Map of localities mentioned in the text. The shading shows the known distribution range of the Great Green Macaw Ara ambigua, the hatching the distribution of Military Macaw Ara militaris. Rio Sapayo and Rio Durango (Esmeraldas?) cannot be located. See the gazetteer of Paynter & Traylor (1977).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. British Ornithologists' Club. London : The Club