272 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



and St. Joseph in winter, and occasionally, sometimes in traps, at Palmer, Mar- 

 quette Co.'* (O. B. Warren); we have taken several at this place; unlike other 

 owls, it is amiable in confinement; Mr. L. W. Watkins killed one at Manchester, 

 Mich., that had pounced down on a hen in broad daylijjjht and killed it; "com- 

 mon in Grand Traverse Co.'' (Dr. M. L. Leach); "Monroe Co. in severe winters" 

 (Jerome Trombiey); "very rare in winter, one taken in St. Joseph Co. in 1892"' 

 (A. H. Boies); "Keweenaw Point'' (Kneeland); "quite common in winter at Port 

 Sanilac, a farmer in spring of 1892 in driving through some woods, ran across 

 a snowy owl and three young, not yet able to tly, he set his dog on them and 

 they were killed " (W. A. Oldfield); " food, mammals, birds, batrachians, fish and 

 molluscs" (L. S. Foster). 



Genus BURMA Dumeril. 



174-377a-(-l:SO). Suriiia nliila caparoch (Midi.). American Hawk Owl. 



"Rare winter visitor" (Gibbs* Birds of Michigan); "I have one mounted speci- 

 men killed near here in 1891 " (W. A. Oldfield); Mr. A. H. Boies has taken one 

 in St. Joseph Co.; " south to Wisconsin " (Jordan). We have never seen this 

 bird here; " Eagle Kiver on Keweenaw Point "' (Kneeland); emV)raced in the lists 

 of Dr. Sager (18,'}9). Cabot's Birds of Northern Peninsula, St. Ignace (1850), Dr. 

 Miles (1861). and Covert's Birds of Washtenaw Co. (1881). 



Order PSITTACI. Parrots; Macaws; Paroquets, etc. 



Mostly tropical birds, with very hooked beaks and claws for climbing. 



Family PSITTACID.l?]. Parrots. 



Feed on cockle bur, tender twigs, blossoms and young fruit of the orchard 

 trees, fruit and grain. 



Genus CONURDS Ktjhl. 



17o-382-(4{>0). Counrns caroliiieiisis (Linn-). Carolina Paroquet. 



Exceedingly rare; A. H. Boies believes he saw a pair at Mallory Lake in 

 Hillsdale Co, 18G0; "remarkable and hardly possible'' (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. Robert 

 Ridgway informs me that the National Museum collection has a specimen labeled 

 from Michigan. Prof. Ludwig Kumlein writes me that he has shot one specimen 

 in Jefferson Co., Wisconsin, and that his father, the late Thos. Kumlein, saw 

 ihem in Wisconsin in the forties; if it occur in Michigan it comes as a very 

 rare straggler from the south; usually seen in Hocks; for a very interesting 

 article on this bird see Auk. Vol. IX, Jan.. 1892, i)p. 49 .IG, where Mr. A. W. 

 Butler gives a very complete monograph on the distribution of this species. It 

 is stated (p. HO) that both Audubon and Wilson reported this bird from Michigan, 

 which is certainlv conclusive. 



