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green, the tips of the feathers passing into bluish- 

 green. The under surface is greenish- black. The 

 kga and toes are flesh red, tinged with grey. 



CAROLINA ARARA. 



Arara Carolinensis. 



Psittacus Carolinensis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 141. 13 Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 1. p. 93. sp. 33. Chas. Buon. Syn. p. 41 Sittace 

 Ludoviciana, Wagler, in Abhand. Qc. p. 656 Carolina 

 Parrot, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 227 Wils. Amer. Orn. 3. p. 89. 

 pi. 26, fig. 1 Id. ed. Sir W. Jardine, 1. p. 376 Audu- 

 bori's Birds of Amer. v. 1. p. 135. pi. 2G. 



THE great body of the Psittacidce, as already 

 observed, are natives of the intertropical climates ; 

 but the species now under consideration is one of 

 the few that occurs in the temperate regions of the 

 northern hemisphere. It is a native of the North 

 American continent, inhabiting the United States 

 to a latitude as high as 42. Such, at least, was 

 the case some fifteen or twenty years ago, when 

 Alexander Wilson was engaged in tracing out the 

 history of the birds inhabiting the States ; for we 

 find, on turning to his delightful pages, that then it 

 not only prevailed throughout Louisiana and the 

 shores of the Mississippi and Ohio, but also those 

 of their tributary waters as high as Lake Michigan, 

 ia lat. 42 N. We learn, however, from a living 



