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the middle tail-feathers, however, are crossed by five darker and six lighter 

 bands, and it averages slightly larger than the Pigeon Hawk and fighter 

 above. 



This is a bird of the western plains of North America from Texas to 

 the Saskatchewan and from the Mississippi to the Pacific, but it seems to 

 be nowhere very common and has been recorded but rarely east of the 

 Mississippi River. It has been included in several Michigan fists, but 

 there is much dovibt as to its actual occurrence within our limits. It was 

 originally included in the maiuiscript list of the Rev. Chas. Fox, and Mr. 

 Covert says that a specimen was taken at Ann Arbor in the fall of 1859, 

 by Dr. Sager, but no such specimen can be found, and it seems likely that 

 the identification was incorrect. 



Carolina Paroquet. Conuropsis carolinensis (Linn.). (382) 



Synonyms: Parrakoct, Carolina Parrakeet, Carolina Parrot, Illinois Parrot, Orange- 

 headed Parrot. — Psittacus carolinensis, Linn., 1758, Wils., And. — Conmnis carolinensis, 

 Kuhl., 1830, and most recent authors. 



The general bright green color, with orange forehead, bright yellow 

 head and neck, and blue-tipped wings, readily distinguish this bird. 



Distribution. — Formerly Florida and the Gulf States north to Maryland 

 the Great Lakes, Iowa and Nebraska, west to Colorado, Indian Territory 

 and Texas, and straggling northeastward to Pennsylvania and New York. 

 Now restricted to Florida, Arkansas and Indian Territory, where it is 

 of only local occurrence. 



This interesting bird, the only representative of the family found in 

 the United States, has been long extinct in JNIichigan if indeed it ever 

 occurred here. So far as we can learn no Michigan specimen exists today. 

 Mr. Ridgway, in his "Birds of Illinois" (1889), says "The National Museum 

 possesses a fine adult example from Illinois, another from Michigan and 

 several from the Platte River in Nebraska" (Vol. I, p. 397). The specimen 

 alluded to (No. 1228) is without date or exact locality, and it has been 

 shown recently that it did not come from Michigan, but from the "Southern 

 States" (Swales, Auk, XXVII, 1910, 209). There is a single specimen 

 in the Kumlien collection taken in Waukesha county, Wisconsin in 1844, 

 and probably the only Wisconsin specimen extant (Birds of Wisconsin, 

 p. 73). 



It was formerly a regular visitor to Ohio, Indiana and Ifiinois, and 

 doubtless bred in all those states. Audubon states that the}^ were plentiful 

 in Ohio about 1807, and could be procured as far north as Lake Erie, 

 and Amos Butler, who has collected much interesting matter relating to 

 this species in Indiana, gives a record of their nesting at one time within 

 a few miles of Indianai)olis. 



Ladder-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. Picoides americanus americanus 



Brchm. (401) 



Synonyms: American Hlack-hackcd Woodpecker. 



Very similar to the Iilack-])acked Three-toed Woodi:)ccker, Init some- 

 what smaller and the middle line of back not uniform black, but more or 

 less crossl)arred with white. Length, about 9 inches, wing, 4.40 to 4.60; 

 tail, 3.10 to 3.75; culmen, 1.10 to 1.25. 



This species has l)een repeatedly listed from IMichigan, but we are unable 



