P8ITTACID.E — THE PARROTS. 



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though three others are luuiul in Mexico, and many more in South and 

 Central America. A lew species occur in the West Indies. 



Conurus carolinensis, Kuiil. 



PARAKEET; CABOLINA FARBOT; ILLINOIS FABBOT. 



Psittaca carol ('urn sis, Dkisson, (Jniith. II, 1702, 13S. Psitta-'us caroliiicnais^ LiXN. Syst. 

 Nat. I, 1758, J>7 : l7»JtJ, 141 (ncc S( mi-uli). — Wils<»n, Am. Uni. Ill, 1811, M>, pi. 

 xxvi, ti<j. 1. — Aril. Orn. IVuy^. I, 1832, 135, pi. xxvi. Conttrns ntruf incus is, KriiL, 

 Nova .\(ta K. L. C 1830. — liov. List, 1838. — 1'k. Max. Calciiiis -loiini. fiir Oni. 

 V, Maidi, 1857, 97. — Baiud, IJinls N. Am. 1858, 57. — FiNst ii, rapa^'.-i. I, 1857, 

 478. — ScL. Cat. 1802, 347. — Allkn, IJ. K. Fla. 308. t'entarus carolinensis. All). 

 Syn. 1831), 189. — In. liinls Am. IV, 1842, 30«J, pi. iT-lxxviii. Psittacus ludoricianus; 

 G.M. Syst. I, 1788, 347. Psittdcus thtilassinns, Vikill. Ency. Meth. 1377. Conurus 

 ludoviciuiius, Gkay. Catal. lir. Mas. I'sittac. 1859, 3«j onakt-s distinct spt-cies from 

 mroUncnsii). Coral inn parrot, Catksijy, Car. I, tab. xi. — Latham, Syn. 1, 227. — 

 Pennant, II, 242. Oramjc-hmrkd parrot, Latham, Syn. I, 304. 



Sp. Char. Head and neck all round gamboge-yellow the forehead, from above the 

 eyes, with the sides of the head, pale 

 brick-red. Body generally with tail 

 green, with a yellowish tinge beneath. 

 Outer webs of primaries bluish-green, 

 yellow at the l)ase; secondary coverts 

 edged with N'ellowish. Edge of wing 

 yellow, tinged with red ; tibiie yellow. 

 Bill white. Legs llesh-color. Length, 

 about L3.0() ; wing, T.-Vl ; tail. 7.10. 

 Young with head and neck green. 

 Female with head and neck green ; the 

 forehead, lores, and .suflusion round the 

 eyes, dark red, and without the yellow 

 of tibiae and edge of wing. Size con- 

 siderably less. 



Hab. Soutliern and Southwestern 

 States and Mississippi Valley; north to 

 the Great Lakes and Wisconsin. 



This species was once very 

 abundant in the United States 

 east of the Kocky Mountains, be- 

 ing known throughout the So ith- 

 ern States, and the entire valley of the ^Fississijipi, north to the Great 

 Lakes. Stmgglers even penetrated to rennsylvania, and one case of their 

 reaching Albany, X. Y., is on record. Xow, however, tliey are greatly 

 restricted. In Florida thev are vet abundant, but, accortlin^ to Dr. Cones, 

 they are scarcely entitled to a place in the fauna of South Carolina. In 

 Western Louisiana, Arkansas, and the Indian Territorv, thev are still found 

 in considerable numbers, straggling over the adjacent States, but now seldom 





Conurus carol! nfusia. 



