T.j8 Hasbrouck o/t the Carolina Paroquet. [Octobtr 



mcr, Piiular mentions if* as very common in years gone l)y in 

 P^ulton County, and further states that stragglers are said to have 

 been seen as recently as 1878. Wilson recordsf it for Tennessee 

 as occurring along the Temiessee River in 181 1. It luidoubtedly 

 occurred in Tennessee at about the same period as in Kentucky. 



In the Smithsonian Report for 1864 (1865, p. 438), Hoy men- 

 tions it as occurring above Boonville, Missouri in 1854, while 

 Cooke in his 'Bird IVIigration in Mississippi Valley' reports it as 

 still present at Fayette in 1885 though almost extinct. Trippe 

 speaksl of it as occurring in Decatur County, Iowa, as recently as 

 1873. A specimen in the Smithsonian collection is labeled 

 "Michigan," without date or exact locality. In southern Wis- 

 consin the birds arCkSaid to have been formerly quite common. 



Cones, in his 'Birds of the Northwest, '§ speaks of the Paroquet 

 in Nebraska as follows : '' 'Among the more interesting ornitho- 

 logical results of Dr. Hayden's investigations, may be mentioned 

 his discovery that this species is abundant at a higher point than 

 is usually recognized," occurring "along the thickly wooded 

 bottoms as far up the Missouri as Fort Leavenworth, possibly as 

 high as the mouth of the Platte.'" Goss in 18S3 mentions|| 

 it as "formerly common in eastern Kansas, but not met with in 

 the State for several years." Taylor in his 'Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Nebraska'^ refers to it as "Formerly abundant even in the 

 eastern part of the State, but now rare if found at all." 



Cones mentions** the occurrence of the Paroquet in Colorad<j in 

 the following note: "Mr. E. L. Berthoud, of Golden, Colorado, 

 writes under date of Dec. 3, 1876: 'I saw the Carolina Parrot 

 at this place and at Denver, on the S. Platte in 1860-61, and 

 on the Little Thompson River, Col., in 1S63.' " This is the most 

 western record for the species, and the only one, so far as known, 

 for the State. 



This enumeration by vStates enables us to draw a comparison by 

 dates between the abundance and wide distribution of the species 



* Auk, VI, 1889, p. 313. 

 t Am. Orn., 1811, p. 91. 



\ Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XV, 1873, p. 233. 

 \ Coues, Birds N. W., 1879, p. 296. 

 II Birds of Kansas, 1883, p. 20. 

 U Taylor, Cat. Birds of Neb., 1887, p. 114. 

 ** Bull. N.O. C, II, 1877, p. 50. 



