346 Wright, Early Records of the Carolina Paroquet. [july 



quette" (1673-1677) mentions this form in two places. Of his ex- 

 periences on the Mississippi near the mouth of St. Francis River in 

 Arkansas, we read/ "We killed a little parroquet, one half of whose 

 head was red, The other half and The neck yellow, and The whole 

 body green." The other quotation speaks of the Mississippi at 

 the 38th degree of latitude.^ "We have seen nothing like this 

 river that we enter, as regards its fertility of soil, its prairies and 

 woods; its ... . parroquets, . . . ." 



In 1663 some "Commissioners sent from Barbodes to explore 

 the River Cape Fear," report,^ "in the woods, great flocks of 

 paroquitos," as does William Hilton in the same region the suc- 

 ceeding year (1664). He writes that^ " in that time as our business 

 called us up and down the River and Branches, we kill'd . . . .three 

 dozen of Parrakeeto's." About 1677, Rev. Andrew White in 

 " A Relation of the Colony of Lord Baron of Baltimore, in Mary- 

 land, near Virginia, etc." records,* that "During the winter it 

 abounds in ... . parrots, and many others unknown to our parts 

 of the world." Five years later (1682) both Samuel Wilson and 

 T. Ashe note this species in Carolina. The former says,^ "Here 

 are also in the woods, great plenty of . . . .Paraquetos"; the latter 

 finds the ^ " Birds for Food, and pleasure of Game, are .... and 

 Parakeittoes." Two years before the end of the century, L. 

 Hennepin when at the Head of the Illinois River, observes,^ 

 "Parrots" "in that country," and then again along the Mississippi 

 where ^ "The Country affords all sorts of Game, as. . . .Parrots, 



In the eighteenth century the number of records exceeds those 

 of the two preceding centuries combined. Almost at its beginning 

 (1702), Holm in "A Short Description of the Province of New 

 Sweden," notes,^ "Parrats." In 1714 the celebrated Lawson 



1 ibid.. Vol. 59, pp. 149-151, 161. 



2 Hawks, Francis L. History of North Carolina. Fayette\dlle, N. C, Vol. II, 

 1858, p. 31. 



' Hilton, Wm. A Relation of a Discovery lately made on the coast of Florida, 

 etc. Force, Peter. Tracts and Other Papers. Wash., D. C, Vol. IV, 1846, p. 15. 



* Force, Peter, ibid.. Vol. IV, 1846, p. 7. 



5 Carroll, B. R. Hist. Colls. S. C. New York, 1836, Vol. II, pp. 28, 73. 



8 Hennepin, L. A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. London, 

 1698, pp. 93, 94. 



J Mem. Hist. Soc. Penn., Vol. Ill, p. 41 (Part I). 



