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Adult Tnale.— Length (skins), 285-328 (299); wing, 175-192 (184.7); 

 tail, 129.5-157 (146.5); culmen, 22.5-24.5 (23.7); tarsus, 16-17.5 

 (16.7); outer anterior toe, 20.5-22.5 (21.4) .« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 283-313 (298); wing, 179-193 

 (186.3); tail, 137.5-153 (147); culmen, 21.5-24 (22.8); tarsus, 

 16-17.5 (16.7); outer anterior toe, 20-23 (21. 3). « 



Formerly inhabiting the Atlantic coastal plain of the United States, 

 from Florida to Virginia (occasionally even to eastern New York), 

 but now totally extirpated over much the greater part of its former 

 range and so nearly extinct that only a few small colonies may yet 

 exist in remote and uninhabited parts of southern Florida. 



Definite records are as follows : 



Florida: Leon County (WaukuUa Swamp, 1885); Levy County 

 (Cedar Keys); Marion County (Oklawaha River, 1876); Lake 

 County (Panasoffke Lake, 1876); Volusia County (Enterprise, up to 

 1880; Blue Sprmgs); Putnam County (1869); Orange County 

 (Orlando); Brevard County (Micco, 1889; Rockledge, up to 1891); 

 Osceola County (7 miles southwest of Kissimmee, 1897); St. Lucie 

 Comity (Fort Drum; Taylor's Creek, 1897; Padgett's Creek, 1901); 

 Dade County (Miami); Lee County (Charlotte Harbor); De Soto 

 County (upper Caloosahatcliie River); Hillsboro County (Tampa; 

 Tarpon Springs; Thonotosassa, 1887); Hernando County (Linden, 

 up to 1889). Georgia (up to 1849). South Carolina (pine barrens, up 

 to 1851). Virginia (no recent records). District of Columbia (one 

 flock in 1865). Pennsylvania (Juniata River, old record). New 

 York (25 miles northwest of Albany, one flock, January, 1790). 



[Psittacus] carolinensis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 97 (South Carolina; 

 based on Carolina Parrot Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, pi. 11; Psittacus 

 carolinensis Brisson, Orn., iv, 350); ed. 12, i, 17G6, 141.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 

 i, pt. 1, 1788, 320.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 93. 



Psittacus carolinensis Forster, Cat. Anim. N. Am., 1771, 9 (Carolina).— Mxjller, 

 Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 74.— Bechstein, Lathams Uebers. Vogel, i, 1793. 

 195, 699.— Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 24 and note (app.), p. 7.— Wilson, 

 Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 89, part {not pi. 26, fig. 1; Maryland; accidental near 

 Albany, New York).— Shaw, Gen. Zool., viii, pt. 2, 1811, 444, part.— 

 ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 369 (cites PI. Enl., pi. 499).— 

 KuHL, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 23.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 41, 

 part.— NuTTALL, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., land birds, 1832, 545, part (valley 

 of Juniata Pt., Pennsylvania; near Albany, New York, accidental in 1790; 

 Tuscaloosa, Alabama). 



Ps[ittacus'\ carolinensis Bechstein, Kuxze Uebers., 1811, 72. 



P[sittacus'\ carolinensis Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1824, 358, 

 part; Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826 [19], part. 



Psittaccus carolinensis Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 135, part ("boundary line 

 between Virginia and Maryland"). 



Aratinga carolinensis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 136, part. 



a Ten specimens from Florida, 

 1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16 10 



