1895.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 481 



descending an immense declivity and coursing along the rich valley 

 of Mansker's Creek, where I again met with large flocks of paroquets, 

 I stopped at a small tavern," etc. This was during his trip from 

 Lexington to Natchez. Again in his journal, dated April 25th of 

 the same year, is the following entry: — "Breakfasted at Walton's, 

 thirteen miles from Nashville. This place is a hue, rich hollow, 

 watered by a charming, clear creek, that never fails. Went up to 

 Madison's Lick, where I shot three paroquets and some small birds." 



Mansker's Creek was north of Nashville, probably in Robertson 

 County. Madison's Lick is in the Cumberland Valley, Davidson 

 County. These records were not published until 1828, when George 

 Orel issued a more complete edition of his "Sketch" of Wilson, 

 containing many letters not in the first edition and among them the 

 one to Lawson containing the above notes. 



In his Ornithology (1811) Wilson (Vol. Ill, p. 91) gives 

 Madison's Lick as the first place in Teuuessee in which he saw 

 Parrots, and continues: "In passing on I next met with them on the 



banks and rich flats of the Tennessee River;" The latter 



region, however, is the debatable one of the old " Natchez Trace" 

 road which here crossed the Tennessee line in the southwest corner 

 of Wayne County and the northwestern corner of Lauderdale County. 

 Alabama and thence south into Tishomingo County, Mississippi, 

 It is not unlikely that he saw paroquets in all of these counties; 

 certainly at least, in Alabama, a fact overlooked by Hasbrouck in 

 his paper in the Auk on this bird. 



From what is known of the breeding habits, of the Carolina Paro- 

 quet in other localities there is no doubt that it was a summer resi- 

 dent in the river bottoms of west Tennessee in Wilson's day. 



Mr. Miles communicates the following valuable note on the 

 Paroquet in a recent letter: — " In the early 50's a flock of Paroquets 

 came to our orchard [near Brownsville] and we chased them out and 

 killed them with sticks and apples; saw a flock at Ashport [Lauder- 

 dale County] on the Mississippi River 100 in number in 1874, and 

 saw one killed alone, within five miles of this [Brownsville] in 1876 

 — the last I have ever heard of." 



