Scarlet macaw; Ara macao.Red and yellow maccaw; Psittacus aracanga. Hand-coloured steel engraving by Joseph Kidd (after John Audubon) from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Brown's 鈥楳iscellany of Natural History: Parrots;' Edinburgh; 1833. The Miscellany was intended to be a multi-volume series; but was brought to an abrupt halt after only the second volume on cats when John Audubon complained about the unauthorized use of his illustrations.