iSqi] Hashkouck on the Carolina Parot/iicf. 377 



niitUUc parts tliey arc almost as coinnion as ever." In 1880 Mr. 

 D. C. Harrison of the Geological Survey was stationetl at 

 S]^encer Academy, some twenty miles trom Caddo; he found tlie 

 birils very abundant, describing them as appearing in large 

 flocks like Blackbirds, and on his return brought six specimens 

 with him as mementos of the trip. Mr. A. W. Butler, to whom 

 I am indebted for tlie following recent information, informs me 

 that an army officer stationed at Fort Gibson, saw and recognized 

 a Hock in 1SS9, which alighted in a tree directly over the spot in 

 which he and his men were encamped. This gentlemen was 

 acquainted with the birds in their Florida haunts, so that there 

 was no chance for error. He reported the fact to AJr. H. K. 

 Coale, who gave tlie information to Mr. Butler. 



For Arkansas there appears to be but one record, and that by 

 Baird, Brewer and Ridgway in 1874, who speak of the occm-rence 

 of the ParrcKjuet in consideialile numbers there at that date, and 

 of tlieir former abundance throughout the Mississippi Valley. 



Auckibon informs us that they were plentiful in Ohio about 

 1S07, and could be procured as far north as Lake Erie. Mr. 

 Butler informs me that about 1S33 Mr. W. B. Seward found 

 young birds in a hollow tree-top that had been blown down, in 

 White River Valley, about twenty miles from Indianapolis, In- 

 diana. This record, according to Mr. Butler, is thoroughly 

 reliable, and is probably the most northern breeding ground 

 known. In i8c;6 Haymond wrote* that they were formerly 

 al)undant along the White Water River, but that none had been 

 seen for many years, while in the Report of the Geological Survey 

 of the State, published in 1869, Coxe in his list of the birds of 

 Franklin County, recortls his seeing "a single flock in June 

 many years ago ; and old inhabitants say that in the early settle- 

 ment of the county they were extiemeiy common." 



In the Smithsonian collection is a specimen (No. 13272), with- 

 out date or locality, taken in Illinois by J. K. Townsend, and 

 Pratten includes it in his list.f In 1SS9 Ridgway speaks of it| 

 as ''probably everywhere extinct within our borders, though flfty 

 years ago it was more or less common throughout the State." 



Kentucky and Tennessee each have one record. For the for- 



* Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1856, p. 293. 



t Trans. 111. State Agric. Soc. for 1853-54, 1855, p. 606. 



+ Nat. Hist. Surv. 111., I, 1889, p. 399. 



