

GENUS 5. PSITTACUS. PARROT. 

 P. CAROLINENSIS. 

 CAROLINA PARROT. 



[Plate XXVL Fig. 1.] 



LINN. Syst. i, 2 } - 97, ed. 10. CATESBY, i, 11. LATHAM, i, 227. 

 Arct. Zuol. 242, No. 132. Ibid. 133. PEALE'S Museum, No. 



762.* 



OF one hundred and sixty-eight kinds of Parrots, enumerated 

 by European writers as inhabiting the various regions of the 

 globe, this is the only species found native within the territory 

 of the United States. The vast and luxuriant tracts lying within 

 the torrid zone, seem to be the favourite residence of those 

 noisy, numerous, and richly-plumaged tribes. The count de 

 Buffon has, indeed, circumscribed the whole genus of Parrots 

 to a space not extending more than twenty-three degrees on 

 each side of the equator; but later discoveries have shown this 

 statement to be incorrect; as these birds have been found on 

 our continent as far south as the straits of Magellan, and even 

 on the remote shores of Van Diemen's Land, in Terra Aus- 

 tralasia. The species now under consideration is also known to 

 inhabit the interior of Louisiana, and the shores of the Missis- 

 sippi and Ohio, and their tributary waters, even beyond the 

 Illinois river, to the neighbourhood of lake Michigan, in lat. 

 42 North; and, contrary to the generally received opinion, is 

 chiefly resident in all these places. Eastward, however, of the 

 great range of the Alleghany, it is seldom seen farther north 



* We add the following synonymes: La Perruche de la Caroline. Bmss. 4, 

 p. 350. Orange-headed Parrot, LATH. Gen. Sijn. 1, p. 304. 1ml. 0/w. p. 

 93. 

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