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eluding tail, green, the forehead orange or orange-red (more dull in 

 young) ; adidts -with neck and part of head uniform yellow, the fore- 

 head and sides of head reddish orange. 



Range. — Southeastern United States. (Monotjrpic.) 



CONUROPSIS CAROLINENSIS CAROLINENSIS (Linnaus). 



CAROLINA PAROQUET. 



Adults {sexes dliJce). — Forehead, anterior portion of crown, loral 

 and suborbital regions, and upper part of malar region, orpiment 

 orange; rest of head and neck (all round) clear lemon j^eUow; back 

 and scapulars clear yellowish green (between paris green and apple 

 green) , the rump brighter and less yellowish green (yellowish emerald 

 green) ; lesser and middle wmg-coverts deep paris green margined 

 with paler and brighter green; greater coverts and proximal seconda- 

 ries (tertials) more yellowish green, paler and more yellowish (apple) 

 green terminally and along distal margin of outer webs; secondaries 

 (except innermost ones) and primary coverts dark green (yellowish 

 terre-verta or French green), the primaries similar but becoming 

 darker and d.idler terminally (especially on inner webs, v/here passing 

 into dusky on margin), the longer primaries (except outermost) 

 broadly edged with pale greenish yellow (citron yellovvO basally; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail clear light parrot green with black shafts, 

 the shafts of middle rectrices whitish basally; mider parts of body, 

 including foreneck and under tail-coverts, clear light apple green 

 (slightly tmged, especially on foreneck and chest, with emerald 

 green), the under wing-coverts similar but more yellowish green, 

 sometimes intermixed with yellow; "bend" of wmg orange inter- 

 mixed more or less with yellow, the carpo-metacarpal region yellow, 

 sometimes tinged or intermixed with orange; anal region and lower 

 portion of thighs yellow, sometimes tinged with orange; under pri- 

 mary coverts and under surface of primaries brownish gray, tmged 

 with yellowish ohve, the under surface of tail similar but more 

 strongly tmged with yellowish olive; bill light cream-buff or cream 

 color; iris dark brown; bare orbital space pale flesh color or pinkish 

 white; legs and feet pale flesh color or pinkish white (in life). 



Young. — Essentially like adults but without any yellow on head 

 or neck, which are green except forehead and loral region, which are 

 tawny-orange, the feathers bordering naked orbital space (except 

 anteriorly) brownish; no yellow nor orange on edge of wmg, thighs, 

 nor anal region, which are wholly green. (This plumage lasts but a 

 few weeks, the full adult plumage being assumed, by gradual molt, 

 before end of the first year.) 



Immature. — Variously intermediate between the adult and young 

 plumages, according to age. 



