Wright, Early Records of the Carolina Paroquet. t347 



speaks of this form in three different places. In the first place he 

 gives the statement of Hilton (1664) above; the second is to 

 include it in his list of "Birds of Carolina"; and the last note 

 characterizes it as follows : ^ " The parrakeetos are of a green color, 

 and orange colored half way their head. Of these and the alli- 

 gators, there is none found to the northward of this province. 

 They visit us first when mulberries are ripe, which fruit they love 

 extremely. They peck the apples to eat the kernels, so that the 

 fruit rots and perishes. They are mischievous to orchards. They 

 are often taken alive and will become familiar and tame in two 

 days. They have their nests in hollow trees, in low swampy 

 ground. They devour the birch buds in April, and lie hidden 

 when the weather is frosty and hard." 



Following Lawson comes William Byrd who discusses (1729) 

 it in connection with apple growing ^ " The Truth is, there is one 

 Inconvenience that easily discourages lazy People from making 

 This improvement: very often, in Autumn, when the Apples 

 begin to ripen, they are visited with numerous flight of paraqueets, 

 that bite all the Fruit to pieces in a moment for the sake of the 

 kernels. The Havock they make is Sometimes so great, that 

 whole Orchards are laid waste in Spite of all the Noises that can 

 be made, or Mawkins that can be dresst up, to fright 'em away. 

 These Ravenous Birds visit North Carolina only during the warm 

 Season, and so soon as the Cold begins to come on, retire back 

 towards the Sun. They rarely Venture so far north as Virginia, 

 except in a very hot Summer, when they visit the most Southern 

 Parts of it. They are very Beautiful; but like some other pretty 

 Creatures, are apt to be loud and mischievous." In 1734 Mr. 

 Commissary Von Reck, who "conducted the First Transport of 

 Saltzburgers to Georgia," writes (Apr. 22) that when at Ebenezeer 

 on Savannah River,^ " Parrots and Partridges make us here a very 

 good Dish." In the "History and General Description of New 

 France" 1744, Charlevoix merely mentions * "Parrots" in Florida. 



1 Lawson, John. The History of Carolina, etc. London, 1714. Reprinted, 

 Raleigh, 1860, pp. 125, 222, 2.34. 



2 BjTd, William. History of the Dividing Line and Other Tracts. Richmond, 

 1866, Vol. I, p. 58. 



3 Force, Peter, ibid., p. 12. 



* Shea, J. G. Translation of. New York, 1866. Vol. I, p. 140. 



