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mouth of a badger hole. It is quite a common occurrence to find 

 them towards evening standing at the mouth of the badger holes" 

 (Johnson). "The Burrowing Owl in 1890 was fairly common on 

 the prairie around Ha warden and, I think, occupied the old holes 

 of the gray prairie squirrel. I shot three males and one female. 

 Thirty-four miles west of Hawarden, at Beresford and Center- 

 ville, Lincoln county, S. D., they are abundant, and one can see 

 a dozen of them in a mile walk across the prairie in the early 

 twilight. On my way home from Dakota in August I caught a 

 3^oung male in a burrow, which I kept in captivity for over a 

 year, when he escaped " (Berry). 



Woodbury — "Uncommon summer resident; breeds. I have 

 seen this bird more than once in Iowa — three or more on one 

 occasion. A farmer friend of mine told me about a pair or more 

 that bred on his farm in this county. H. L,. Bond, on Feb. 5, 

 1898, writes: 'A small colony of Burrowing Owls near town 

 here (Meriden, Iowa) which affords me considerable amusement 

 and instruction. I took a full set of eggs from one of their bur- 

 rows ' " (Rich). " Hearsay record but fairly authentic. An old 

 Winnebago Indian that used to live upon the Winnebago Indian 

 Reservation told me a short time ago that the " little ground 

 owls ' ' used to live in a prairie-dog town in the northwest corner 

 of Woodbury county, Iowa. He saw them there about twenty 

 years ago and the last time about fifteen years ago. He used to 

 hunt in this region of Iowa often and is sure that the birds are 

 as above mentioned " (Trostler). 



Order PSITTACI. Parrots, Macaws, Paroquets, etc. 

 FAMILY PSITTACID.^. Parrots and Paroquets. 



The only species of this large family that ever occurred in the 

 wild state in Iowa is the Carolina Paroquet, which is now practic- 

 ally extinct except in a few localities along the Gulf coast and in 

 Florida. 



Subfamily CONURIN^. Wedge-tailed American 

 Parrots. 



Genus Conurus Kuhl. 

 172. (382). Conurus carolinensis (Linn.). Carolina Paroquet. 

 The beautiful Carolina Paroquet formerly ranged in flocks as 



[Proc. D. a. S., Vol. XI.l 37 [Nov. 14, 1906.] 



