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far as the northern part of the state, but has not been observed 

 in the state for at least thirty years and has practically been 

 exterminated throughout the United States. Frank M. Chap- 

 man gives four reasons for its disappearance: "First, it was 

 destructive to fruit orchards, and for this reason was killed by 

 agriculturists ; second, it has been trapped and bagged in enor- 

 mous numbers by professional bird-catchers ; third, it has been 

 killed in myriads for its plumage ; and fourth, it has been wan- 

 tonly slaughtered by so-called sportsmen " (Birds East. N. A., p. 

 222). 



Thomas Say states that the ' ' Carolina perroquet ' ' was seen 

 several times during the winter of 1819-20 at Engineers' Canton- 

 ment (Long's Exp., I, pp. 265-270). Prince Maximilian on May 

 14, 1834 (a little below "Wheeping- water River"), records: "Auch 

 Papageien wurden gesehen, deren Gardner schon oben an I'eau 

 qui court [Niobrara River] bemerkt hatte," etc. (Reise 11, 345). 

 Audubon noted the species several times along the Missouri 

 (Journals i, 476) ; (May 8, 1843), " we saw Parrakeets and many 

 small birds but nothing new or very rare ' ' (southwest corner of 

 Iowa), (Ibid, 477, Bellevue, Sarpy county, Neb., May 9, 1843) ; 

 (Ibid, 481, near Council Bluffs, May 10, 1843), " Parrakeets and 

 Wild Turkeys plentiful;" they were also heard by Bell between 

 Ft. George and the Great Bend of the Missouri September 15, 

 1843 (Ibid, II, p. 165). As late as 1863, F. V. Hayden noted the 

 Paroquet as ' ' very abundant in the Mississippi Valley along the 

 thickly wooded bottoms as far up the Missouri as Fort Leaven- 

 worth, possibly as high as the mouth of the Platte, but never 

 seen above that point" (Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, xii, 1863, p. 



154)- 

 The last Iowa record is that given by Dr. Coues in his " Birds 



of the Northwest," (1874 p. 296). " In Iowa, according to Mr. 

 Trippe, the Parrot still occurs. ' A resident of Decatur county 

 told me that he had several times seen a flock of Parrots in the 

 southern part of the county on a tall, dead cottonwood tree, 

 known to the neighboring inhabitants as the " parrot tree," from 

 its having been frequented at intervals by the same flock for sev- 

 eral years .... and that he had shot one of them on one occa- 

 sion' (Pr. Bost. Soc, XV, 1872, p. 233)." 



Paul Bartsch, in an article on "Birds Extinct in Iowa and 



