 The Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus cited the plate in his 1766 description of the scarlet macaw, but his description does not match the bird shown.A 1626 painting by the Dutch artist Roelant Savery, which also includes a dodo, shows a red macaw that agrees with the descriptions of the Lesser Antillean macaw.A second macaw in the painting may be the hypothetical extinct Martinique macaw ("A. martinicus"), but though many parrots were imported into Europe at the time from all over the world, it is impossible to determine the accuracy of such paintings today.