iS9i.| Hashrouck on the CaroliiKi PariHjiiit. 37^ 



Ilap[Ml\ tlic species is stiil cxtniit, Lul in what luiinbers, or how 

 long it will contiiuie to exist it is of course impossible to say. In 

 the western part of the Indian Territory, and in South Florida, the 

 birds are still to be found, but in regions so inaccessable, and so 

 far from human habitations as to be almost unknown. In the 

 winter of iSSS-89, Mr. F. M. Chapman made careful investiga- 

 tions in Florida upon which is based the latter part of the above 

 statelnen^ ; while, as regards the Indian Territory, a considerable 

 moimt of reliable information assures us that it was found as 

 recently as 1889. 



Turning now to tlie map we find that of the forty-four States 

 and five Territories comprising our country, there are records of 

 tlie occurrence of this species in twenty-two States and one Terri- 

 tory, and the almost absolute certainty of its having strayed into at 

 least five more, making a total of twenty-seven States and one 

 Territory over which it formerly ranged. If vve take the forty, 

 third parallel as the northern limit, the twentv-sixth as the most 

 southern, the seventy-third and one hundred and sixth meridians as 

 the eastern and western boundaries respectively, we will have in- 

 cluded very nearly all the country in which the Paroquet formerly 

 lived. It will of course be imdcrstood that to hay down an exact 

 boundary 'foi any one species is impossible, as where it occurs near 

 the bolder of a certain State, there is no apparent reason for its not 

 crossing the few intervening miles of country and paying occasion- 

 .al visits to adj.icent States, and mdess accitientally observed by 

 some one familiar with the importance of such visit the occurrence 

 would go unrecorded. Therefore where we have a record of the 

 Paroquet as formerly common over the whole of a certain State, 

 we may reasonably assume that the border of an adjoining one was 

 occasionally visited, although no record may exist of its having 

 been observed. As an instance both New Jersey and Delaware are 

 without record, yet Maryland and Pennsylvania were formerly 

 visited by them, and there is evidence of its occuiring as far north 

 as central New York ; in the face of which it is highly probable 

 that both ofth.' above mentioned States were resorted to although 

 not included in tlie scope of distribution. 



In further explanation it will perhaps be best to state, that in 

 drawing the boundary line of the former range I have used the 

 extreme lecords as boundaries, and a line drawn from one to the 

 other as the extent of the former distribution : it is highly probable, 

 however, that, in some of the extreme records, the birds followed 



