oOD Wright, Early Records oj the Carolina Paroquet. [july 



gris rivers, Indian Territory, they notice them. On the first day 

 they say, " A flock of paroquets flew over our heads, uttering their 

 loud note, with their usual loquacity." On the second, they 

 record, "Another flock of paroquets were seen to-day." 



In the next decade, we begin with H. R. Schoolcraft, the friend 

 of the Indian, who holds at the time of his writing (1821) that ^ 

 "The paroquet is found as far north as the mouth of the Illinois, 

 and flocks have occasionally been seen as high as Chicago." In 

 1821, this same author again speaks of this form.^ "We first saw 

 the perroquet about Terra Haute; and this bird is thence fre- 

 quently seen to enliven the landscape. In the course of the day, 

 we caught one of these showy birds, which had been pounced upon 

 by a hawk. The flock, from which it was struck, happened, at 

 that moment, to be passing over us ; and it fell into the water quite 

 near. The wound it had received was very slight, and it soon 

 recovered; and by its cries attracted great numbers of its kind 

 to follow." The year succeeding, J. Woods merely notes, that in 

 Illinois,^ " Paroquets are the same as are seen in sages in England, — 

 a mischievous bird." In 1822-23, William H. Blane at the same 

 place where David Thomas observed them (French Lick, Ind.) 

 says,* " When crossing a small stream, the day after leaving Byrom's 

 I saw a large flock of beautiful green and yellow parroquets. These 

 are the first I had met with; and as they were very tame, and al- 

 lowed me to come close to them, I got off my horse, and stopped 

 a short time to admire them. I afterwards saw numbers of the 

 same kind in the flats of the Wabash and Mississippi, for this 

 beautiful bird apparently delights in the neighbourhood of streams." 



When on the Alabama river below Cahawba, Jan. 6, 1826, 

 Bernhard, Duke of Saxe Weimar encounters,^ "several paroquets 

 flying round, who kept up a great screaming. Many were shot. 



1 Schoolcraft, H. R. Narrative Journal of Travles from Detroit Northwest, 

 etc. in the year 1820. Albany, 1821, pp. 259, 260. 



■ Schoolcraft. H. R. Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley. 

 N. Y. 1825, p. 151. 



3 Woods, J. Two Years Residence in the Settlements on the English Prairie 

 in the Illinois Comitry, United States, etc. London, 1822, p. 198. 



* Blane, William H. An Excm-sion through the United States and Canada 

 during the Years 1822-23 by an English Gentleman. London, 1824, p. 144. 



6 Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach. Travels tlirough North America , 

 during the years 1825 and 1820. Pliila., Pa., Vol. II, pp. 35, 38, 99. 



