tfO Butler on the Carolitia Parrakeet. [Januaiy 



In 1 83 1 Audubon notes them from the vicinity of Cincinnati, 

 and states: "Our Parrakeets are very I'apidly diminishing in 

 number, and in some districts, vv^here twenty-five years ago they 

 were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen. At that period 

 [ I S06] they could be procured as far up the tributary waters of the 

 Ohio as the Great Kanawha, the Scioto, the heads of the Miami, 

 the mouth of the Manimee (Maumee) at its junction with Lake 

 Erie, on the Illinois River and sometimes as far northeast as Lake 

 Ontario. At the present day very few are to be found higher than 

 Cincinnati, and it is not until you reach the mouth of the Ohio 

 that Parrakeets are met with in considerable numbers." Wilson 

 after mentioning their occurrence near Lake Michigan, in latitude 

 42°, and also twenty-five miles northwest of Albany, N. Y., 

 speaking of his trip down the Ohio, says of this bird: "In de- 

 scending the Ohio, by myself, in the month of February, I met 

 with the first flock of Parroquets at the mouth of the Little Scioto. 

 I had been informed by an old and respectable inhabitant of 

 Marietta, that the}^ were sometimes, though rarely, seen there. I 

 observed flocks of them afterwards at the mouth of the Great and 

 Little Miami [the former near Lawrenceburg, Ind.], and in the 

 neighborhood of the numerous creeks that discharge themselves 

 into the Ohio." He also reported them in great numbers at 

 Big Bone Lick in Kentucky. 



Dr. Kirtland in 1838 says: "The Parrakeets do not usually 

 extend their visits north of the Scioto, though I am informed, 

 perhaps on doubtful authority, that thirty years since [1808] 

 flocks of them were seen on the Ohio at the inouth of Big 

 Beaver, thirty miles below Pittsburg." Atwater notes them as 

 far north as Columbus, Ohio, and Mr. M. C. Read atTalmadge, 

 Summit Co., Ohio. Dr. F. W. Langdon reports them from 

 Madisonville, near Cincinnati, during the summers of 1837, ^^3^' 

 and 1839. Few were seen in 1S40, and none after that year. 

 Nelson in his 'Birds of Northeastern Illinois' says : "Formerly oc- 

 curred. Specimens were taken in this vicinity by R. Kennicott 

 many years ago, and Dr. H. M. Bannister informs me he has 

 seen it in this vicinity." Mr. Robert Ridgway in his 'Ornithol- 

 ogy of Illinois', 1889, says: "Fifty years ago [1S39] it was more 

 or less common throughout the State. The National Museum 

 possesses a fine adult example from Illinois, .... another from 

 Michigan." 



