VANISHING EXOTIC BIRDS 



THE CAROLINA PAROQUET 



{CONURUS CAROLINENSIS) 



rpHIS pretty little North American Parrot is now, 

 -*- alas ! a rapidly vanishing species. Bendire, one 

 of the most recent writers on this species, says : 

 " The total extermination of the Carolina Paroquet 

 is only a question of a few more years, and the end 

 of the present century will probably mark their 

 disappearance. Civilisation does not agree with 

 these birds, and as they certainly do some damage 

 to fruit in sections where they still exist, nothing 

 else than complete annihilation can be looked for. 

 Like the Bison and the Passenger Pigeon, their days 

 are numbered." ^ 



1 We hope Bendire and Mr. Lucas have taken rather a gloomy view 



in this case. Certainly great numbers of these birds have recently 



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