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mounted for more than half a century, but, as is usual with parrots, 
they have not suffered in the least from exposure to light, and are 
neither faded nor discolored. They are exactly similar in every 
way to Florida specimens, and show no approach whatever to the 
pale glaucous bird of the prairie region. The names Psvttacus 
ludovicianus Gmel. and Psittacus thalassinus Vieill., thus both 
become synonyms of Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis (Linn.). 
The two forms of the Carolina Paroquet therefore apparently 
should stand as follows: — 
1. Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis (Linn.). 
Type Locality — South Carolina. 
Range.— Austro-riparian region of the United States formerly, from 
Maryland to Florida and west along the Gulf Coast to Louisiana. Now 
extinct, save possibly very locally in Florida. 
2. Conuropsis carolinensis interior subsp. nov. 
Type, from Bald Island, Nebraska, adult female, no. 43,215 M. C. Z. 
(from the collection of the late Dr. Henry Bryant), taken April 24, ——. 
Range.— Formerly the interior prairie region of the United States, from 
Texas and eastern Colorado to Wisconsin and the southern shores of the 
Great Lakes, and south, probably, to about Cairo, Illinois.! 
Characters.— A much paler bird than Conuropsis c. carolinensis (Linn.); 
yellow portions of head and neck pale lemon yellow or picric yellow, in- 
stead of lemon yellow or lemon chrome; green of upper parts much paler 
and more bluish, verdigris green to variscite green on wing coverts and 
sides of neck; under parts dull green-yellow glossed with variscite green; 
bend of wing and feathers of tibia paler, purer yellow, less orange. 
Measurements— Type, @ adult: wing, 181; (tail-feathers too much 
abraded at tips to afford a measurement); tarsus, 17; exposed culmen, 
24 mm. 
Note.— Names of colors are according to Ridgway’s ‘Color Standards 
and Color Nomenclature,’ Washington, 1912. 
1 Now that we know the Louisiana bird belonged to the austro-riparian form, 
I think it is safe to assume that it ranged north in the Mississippi Valley to 
about Cairo, Illinois. This locality marks a natural faunal boundary, where the 
two forms might be expected to meet. 
