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so far as known, is the eastern part of Indian Territory and portions 

 of Arkansas." 



The latest record of its occurrence in any northern locality seems 

 to be that given by Dr. Eliot Coues in his Birds of the Northwest 

 (1874, p. 296). He writes: "In Iowa, according to Mr. Trippe, 

 the Parrot still occurs. A resident of Decatur County told me that 

 he had several times seen a flock of Parrots in the southern part of 

 the county on a tall, dead cottonwood tree, known to the neighboring 

 inhabitants as the "parrot tree" from its having been frequented at 

 intervals by the same flock for several years." In a previous article 

 (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XV, 1872, p. 237), he quotes the 

 same authority and adds "he had shot one of them on one occasion." 



In 1863 Dr. F. V. Hayden (Trans. Am. Philos. Soc., XII, 1863, p. 

 154) states that Paroquets were "very abundant in the Mississippi 

 Valley along the thickly wooded bottoms as far up the Missouri as 

 Fort Leaven worth." 



Mr. Rudolph M. Anderson in his Birds of Iowa (Proc. Daven- 

 port Acad. of Sci., Vol. XI, 1907, p. 271) writes: "A series of about 

 a dozen specimens in the University Museum were taken by D. H. 

 Talbot's collectors at the mouth of the Arkansas River in 1882." 



Mr. A. W. Butler (Birds of Indiana, 1897, p. 819) gives an inter- 

 esting account of the history and distribution of Paroquets in Indiana 

 and states that it "bred at least north to the vicinity of Indianapolis." 



Mr. Otto Widmann states that as late as July 18, 1905, a Paroquet 

 was seen at Notch, Stone Co., Missouri, and another killed in August, 

 the previous year, near Potter, Kansas, opposite Platte Co., Missouri. 

 (Birds of Missouri, 1907, p. 116.) 



