iSgi.] IIasbrouck on flic Carolina Paro(/uei. S7S 



twL'uty mik's iVoin Tallahassee,* aiul it may be supposed with a 

 reasonable amount of certainty to occur there at present in mod- 

 erate numbers. Four handsome specimens of this Parrot in my 

 collection were taken at Thonotosassa, Hillsborough County, ok 

 April 25, 1SS7, by Air. Chas. Steacy, who writes me that these 

 are the only ones he has seen for some time, and that the occur- 

 rence of the birds in that vicinity has not come under his notice 

 since the above date. Brewster,* writing in 1889, 'iffi''ms that 

 "•A few are still found as far north as the Weekiva River bottom, 

 while south of Kissimmee they are still actually abundant over a 

 region of considerable extent." If this be true it is evident that 

 the region must be confined mainly to the interior, as the vahie 

 of the birds is so well known that had they appeared on the coast, 

 some of the many collectors would have been almost certain to 

 have observed them. In partial support of both Mr. Brewster's 

 statement and my theory, the following from Mr. W. E. D. 

 vScottf may be of value : "With the settlement of the State this 

 species has gradually disappeared till at the present time it must 

 be regarded as a rare bird, though once so abunckmt and con- 

 spicuous. In the winter of iS^^-^6 the birds were very abun- 

 dant at Panasoffkee Lake, and the same season I saw many 

 flocks on the Ocklawaha River. About Tarpon Springs they 

 were formerly very common. . . . For the last five years but 

 one small Hock of some ten birds lias been seen in this vicinity. 

 . . . At a point in Hernando County, in the vicinity of a place 

 called Linden, the birds are still fairly common, and I have pro- 

 cured a series from that place the past winter (1SSS-S9). . . . 

 Mr. Atkins writes me : 'I have in mv collection several 

 specimens, and have seen others from time to time that were 

 taken in the Okeechobee region where the birds seem to be fairly 

 common.' " 



In the spring of 1SS9, Mr. F. M. Chapman made careful 

 search for the Paroquet on the eastern coast of Florida in the vi- 

 cinity of Micco.| It was his good fortune to find "in all about 

 fifty birds, in flocks of from six to twenty," thus proving that 

 they are still to be found in the wilder and less thickly settled 

 portion of the State, while Mr. F. S. Risely, of Rockledge, in- 



*Auk, VI,i889, p. 337. 

 fAuk, VI, 1889, p. 249. 

 tProc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 1890, p. 



