NoveEemMBER 26, 1913 Vou. IV, Pr. 93-94 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
AN UNNAMED RACE OF THE CAROLINA PAROQUET. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
For many years it has been common knowledge among the older 
set of American ornithologists that the Carolina paroquet divided 
into two very distinct geographical races. One of these in former 
days occupied the austro-riparian region of the United States, from 
Maryland southward. The other was spread, in summer, at least, 
over an immense area of the interior prairies from eastern Colorado 
and Texas to Wisconsin. The prairie form is now quite extinct; 
and the coastal race, while it may still occur very locally in Florida, 
— which I much doubt,— is to all purposes a vanished bird. 
The paroquet of the interior prairie region would long ago have 
had a name given it, had it not been for a stumbling block in 
Psittacus ludovicianus Gmelin, from “Louisiana.” The Louisiana 
bird might have belonged to either of the two races, and no speci- 
mens were known in any of our large museums, to prove upon 
which race Gmelin’s name, and its synonym Psittacus thalassinus 
Vieillot, had been based. Few discoveries, therefore, have ever 
given me more pleasure than when I found two beautiful specimens 
from Louisiana (probably from near New Orleans), actually col- 
lected by Sallé, in the famous De Lafresnaye Collection that has 
just been transferred from the Boston Society of Natural History 
to the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. 
One of these is adult, the other youngish. Both have been 
