"^76 IIasisroulk I)// tin Citioliiiii Paroqnii. fOtiolitr 



fonns inc that he had one specimen brou<^"ht to liim the past 

 winter (1S90-91 ). 



In 1S59, Gosse speaks* of the species in such terms as to 

 leave us somewhat in doubt as to whether it was of common occur- 

 rence in Ahdiama at tliat date, while in 1S7S (the latest record 

 from the State), Mr. N. C. Brown refers to itf as being rather 

 uncommon in the vicinity of Coosada during- his stay, and invari- 

 ably quite shy. 



The following account by Prof. Wailesj for Mississippi is pro- 

 lnil)ly as full as any, and appears to be about the only published 

 record for that State : ''The Paroquet was formerly very numerous, 

 antl often resorted in large flocks to inhabited districts and made 

 himself familiar with the apple orchards. Now (1S54) tbt?y have 

 become quite scarce and shy, and are seldom seen in flocks of 

 more than half a dozen together." In 187"^, Beckham writes, § 

 ''Judge Lawrason, who lives in the country near Bayou »Sara, 

 Louisiana, informs me that as late as 1S75 he found the Carolina 

 Paroquet every year at his place, but since that date has neither 

 seen nor heard of any in his locality." 



For Texas we have but one record, || which informs us of its 

 being ''Qiiite nimierous in the eastern part of the State in 18^3, 

 and confining itself to the timberlancls of the large streams." 

 This rather \ague statement makes it somewhat difUcult to place 

 the boimdary line. I have placed it, however, between the Brazos 

 and Trinity rivers, — covering to a large extent the same territory 

 over which the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ( Ca7npcphihis princi- 

 palis) formerly ranged.^ 



In company with the Texas record is a statement by the 

 same author that the species is to be found in the Indian Terri- 

 tory ; while Cooke informs us** that "Formerly numerous flocks 

 were found all over the reservation, but that at present (18S5) 

 it is almost extinct in the eastern part of the Territory, though a 

 few are still found arountl Caddo, while in the western and 



* Gosse, Letters from Alabama, 1859, p. 298. 

 t Bull. N.O. C, IV, 1879, p. II. 



I Geol. & Agric. of Miss. 1854, p. 324. 

 \ Auk, IV, 1887, p. 303. 



II Woodhouse, Sitgreaves's Rep., p. 89. 

 H Auk, VIII, 1891, p. 14. 



**Bird Migr., Miss. Val. 1885, p. 124. 



