EXTINCT EXCEPT IN FLORIDA 



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Everywhere else than in Florida the Carolina Parrakeel 

 has long been extinct. In 1904 a flock of thirteen birds was 

 seen near Lake Okechobee; hut in Florida many calamities 

 can overtake a flock of birds in ten years. The birds in 

 captivity are not breeding, and so far as perpetuation by them 



Drawn by Edmund -I. Sawyer. 



CAROLINA PARBAKEET. 



i- concerned, they are only one remove from mounted museum 

 specimens. This parrakeel is the only member of its order 

 that ranged into the United States during our own times, 

 and with its disappearance the order Psittaci totally disap- 

 pears from our count ry. 



In color thi> bird had a bright-greeD body, and yellow head 

 and neck. It fed upon fruit and seeds, and noted in hollow 

 tree-. 



