IO8 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



ORDER PSITTACI: PARROTS AND 

 PAROQUETS. 



FAMILY PSITTACIDJE: PARROTS AND PAROQUETS. 

 Genus CONUKUS Kuhl, 1820. 



Conurus carolinensis (Linnaeus). Carolina Paroquet. 



Psittacus carolinensis LINN^SUS, S. N. ed. 10, I, 1758, 97. 



Conurus carolinensis LESS., Traite, 1831, 211. 



Popular synonyms: ILLINOIS PAROQUET. CAROLINA PABBAKEET. 



Mr. Robert Ridgway says:* "The avian-fatma of Illinois 

 has lost no finer or more interesting member than the present 

 species, which is probably now everywhere extinct within our 

 borders, though fifty years ago it was of more or less common 

 occurrence throughout the state." The only record that I have 

 of the occurrence of this Paroquet within our limits, is that of 

 Mr. E. W. Nelson, who says :f "Formerly occurred. Specimens 

 were taken in this vicinity by R. Kennicott many years ago, and 

 Dr. H. M. Bannister informs me that he has seen it in this vicin- 

 ity." 



While this species formerly had quite an extended range, it 

 is now found only in limited portions of Florida and the states 

 bordering the Gulf of Mexico, and portions of the lower Missis- 

 sippi Valley as far north as Arkansas and the Indian Territory. 



ORDER COCCYGES : CUCKOOS, AND 

 KINGFISHERS. 



FAMILY CUCULID^E: CUCKOOS, ETC. 

 Genus COCCYZUS Viefflot, 1816. 



Coccyzus americanus (Linnaeus). Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Cuculus americanus LINNAEUS, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 111. 



Coccyzus american-us BONAPABTE, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



III, ii, 1824, 367. 

 Popular synonyms: RAIN CBOW. WOOD PIGEON. Cow-cow. 



This species is a common summer resident, arriving early 

 in May and departing in October. 



The range of this Cuckoo includes North America east of 

 the Great Plains, and it breeds from Florida north to New Bruns- 

 wick. It winters south through Mexico and Central America as 

 far as Costa Rica. 

 Coccyzns erythrophthalmus (Wilson). Black-billed Cuckoo. 



Cuculus erythropthalmus WILSON, Amer. Orn., IV, 1811, 16 pi. 28. 



*The Ornithology of Illinois, Vol. I, 1889, 397. 



tBirds of Northeastern Illinois. Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 187G, 11 



