PSITTACIDJi — THE PARROTS. 



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though three others are found in Mexico, and many more in South and 

 Central America. A few species occur in the West Indies. 



Conurus carolinensis, Kuiil. 



PAEAKEET; CABOLINA PAKROT; ILLINOIS PABBOT. 



FsiUaca carolUicnsii, Bkissox, Oriiith. II, 1762, 138. Psitlacus carolinensis, Linn. Syst. 

 Nat.. I, 1758, 97 ; 1766, 141 (nee Scopoli). — Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 89, pi. 

 xxvi, fig. 1. — AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 135, pi. xxvi. Conurus airol incnsis, Kuhl, 

 Nova Acta K. L. C. 1830. — Bon. List, 1838. — Pii. M.\x. Cabanis Journ. fiir Orn. 

 V, March, 1857, 97. — B.4.IHD, Birds N. Am. 1858, 57. — Finsl-h, Papagei. I, 1857, 

 478. — ScL. Cat. 1862, 347. —Allen, B. E. Fla. 308. Centurus carolineiisis, Auu. 

 Syu. 1839, 189. — Ib. BirJs Am. IV, 1842, 306, pi. cclxxviii. Psitlacus hulovicianus, 

 Gm. Syst. I, 1788, 347. Psitlacus tlmhuisinus, Vieill. Ency. Metli. 1377. Conurus 

 ludovicianus, Gray. Catal. Br. Mus. Psittac. 1859, 36 (makes distinct species from 

 carolinensis). Carolina parrot, Catesby, Car. I, tab. xi. — Latha.m, Sjti. 1, 227. — 

 Pennant, II, 242. Orangc-hcaded parrot, Latham, Syn. I, 304. 



Sp. Char. Head and neck all round gamboge-yellow ; the forehead, from above the 

 eyes, with the side.s of the head, pale 

 brick-red. Body generally with tail 

 green, with a yellowish tinge beneath. 

 Outer webs of primaries bluish-green, 

 yellow at the base ; secondary coverts 

 edged with yellowish. Edge of wing 

 yellow, tinged with red ; tibiae yellow. 

 Bill white. Legs flesh-color. Length, 

 about 13.00 ; wing, 7.50 ; tail, 7.10. 

 Young with head and neck green. 

 Female with head and neck green ; the 

 forehead, lores, and suffusion round the 

 eyes, dark reii, and without the yellow 

 of tibise and edge of wing. Size con- 

 siderably less. 



Hab. Southern and Southwestern 

 States and Mississippi Valley ; north to 

 the Great Lakes and AViscousin. 



This species was once very 

 abundant in the United States 

 east of the Rocky Mountains, be- 

 ing known throughout the South- 

 ern States, and the entire valley of the Alississippi, nortli to the Great 

 Lakes. Stragglers even penetrated to Pennsylvania, and one case of their 

 reaching Albany, N. Y., is on record. Xow, however, tliey are greatly 

 restricted. In Florida they are yet abundant, but, according to Dr. Cones, 

 they are scarcely entitled to a place in tlie fauna of South Carolina. In 

 Western Louisiana, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory, they are stiU found 

 in considerable numbers, straggling over the adjacent States, but now seldom 



Conurus carolinensis. 



