C2 BuTLEK on the Carolina Purrakeet. [Jamiaiy 



vicinity about 1835. Near the site of the present village of Cen- 

 terton, Morgan County, Mr. Beeler says they were more num- 

 erous. There they frequented the bottoms of White River. 

 They were last seen in that vicinity about 1838-40. 



Professor John Collett thinks the Parrakeet left Indiana in 1844. 

 This is evidently not the case. Hon. John W. Ray informs me 

 they were observed by him in Clark County up to about 1844, 

 and in Greene County in 1849. Mr. W. B. Seward of Bloom- 

 ington informs me that these birds were well known to him from 

 1840 to 1S50, and in many places were plentiful. The late Dr. 

 Richard Owen a short time before his death very kindly furnished 

 me with quite a number of valuable notes on the occurrence of 

 this species near New Harmony, based upon observations of his 

 own, of Mr. Sampson, and of several of the older residents of that 

 place. Mr. Sampson remembers them as common when he 

 went there in 1827. Further evidence is presented of their 

 known occurrence in that vicinity in 1840, 1842, 1850, 1857, and 

 last in 1858. 



From the evidence here presented it seems that they had dis- 

 appeared almost wholly from Ohio and from Indiana, save the 

 southwestern portion, by some time between 1835 and 1840, and 

 that they left Indiana about 1858. So far as I know, there is 

 but one record of the recurrence of the species in the region thus 

 vacated. The late Dr. J. M. Wheaton gives, upon what he 

 considers good authority, an account of a flock of twenty-five or 

 thirty individuals at Columbus, Ohio, in July, 1862. Within 

 about thirty years from the time first referred to by Audubon the 

 species had entirely disappeared from the territory south of a line 

 drawn, from Chicago, 111., to Albany, N. Y., to, approximately, 

 a line drawn from some point in Virginia, or perhaps North 

 Carolina, to the lower Wabash Valley. In the next forty-five 

 years they disappeared from southwestern Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Kentucky, most of Missouri, and 

 from the immediate vicinity of the Mississippi River, also from 

 the States of the Atlantic coast as far south as Florida. The 

 steady contraction of occupied area still continues. They are 

 now perhaps found in but a few restricted localities. In the 

 southern part of Florida they are still to be found in some 

 numbers. Perhaps a small area in the interior of some of the Gulf 

 States may still be occupied by them. Besides there is an area. 



