° 1912 " J Wright, Early Records of the Carolina Paroquet. ool 



They are parrots, but of a larger species than the common kind, 

 clear green with yellow tips to their wings, and orange-coloured 

 heads, flesh-coloured bills, and long green tails." Two days later, 

 on the same river near Claiborne, he "saw. . . ., on the shores also, 

 numbers of paroquets which make a great noise." Finally', Apr. 8, 

 1826, when at St. Charles, Missouri, he observes, "In the forest, 

 however, there were. . . .several paroquets, similar to those I had 

 seen on the river Alabama." In 1826, Timothy Flint's Recol- 

 lections appear. At Cincinnati he finds that a ^ " Flock of paro- 

 quest are glittering among the trees, . . . . " Along the Kentucky 

 river "There were also great numbers of paroquets. . . . "; and of 

 Shawoetow n, he says, " My children contemplated with unsated 

 curiosity the flocks of parroquets fluttering among the trees, when 

 we came near the shore." The same author, two years later, 

 observes that in Missouri,^ " The beautiful parroquet frequents the 

 sycamore bottoms, and poorly compensates by the extreme beauty 

 of its plumage for the injury it does the orchard and garden fruits." 

 In the Ohio river region, 1828, Judge James Hall finds,^ "Here too, 

 large flocks of paroquets are heard chattering in the woods, or 

 seen sporting their bright green plumage in the sun-beams." 



In 1832 we have a summary of the northward range of the 

 Carolina paroquet at that time. Hinton says, (excerpts from 

 Wilson's account)'* "Of the 168 kinds of parrots enumerated by 

 European writers as inhabiting the various regions of the globe, 

 the Carolina parrot is the only species found native within the 

 territory of the United States. This bird inhabits the interior of 

 Louisiana, knd the shores of the Mississippi and Ohio, and their 

 tributary waters, even beyond the Illinois river, to the neighbour- 

 hood of Lake Michigan in lat. 42 degrees north; and, contrary 

 to the generally received opinion, is chiefly resident in all these 

 places. Eastward of the Apalachian, it is seldom seen farther 

 north than the state of Maryland, though straggling parties have 



' Flint. Timothy. Recollections of the Last Ten Years Passed in Occasional 

 Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, etc. Boston, 1S26, 

 pp. 52, 53, 84, 248. 



2 Flint, Timothy. A Condensed Geography and History of the Western States 

 or Tlie Mississippi Valley. Cincinnati, 1828. Vol. II, p. 73. 



^ Hall, James. Letters from the West; etc. London, 1828, p. 190. 



* Hinton, J. H. The History and Topography of the United States. London, 

 1832. 2 vol. Vol. II, p. 155. 



