The red-headed macaw or Jamaican green-and-yellow macaw (Ara erythrocephala) may have been a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae that lived in Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.
Rothschild based it on a description which a Mr. Hill had sent to Philip Henry Gosse:
Ara erythrocephala could have been found in the mountains of Trelawney and St. Anne's Parishes, Jamaica.[1] It was described to have been found in the mountains, and presumably in forest as well.[2]
It is believed that the main reason for the macaw's extinction was overhunting.[3]
The macaw is extinct,[2] and it is conjectured to have been hunted to extinction in the early 19th century.[4] It was a close relative of the Cuban and Dominican macaws.[4] Its existence is considered dubious today.[5]