270 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



taken in the State of Missouri was killed by Chas. Bankers on 

 April 19, 1902, at Corning in Holt County. 



It may occur occasionally on the prairie regions along the 

 western border of this county, since it has been reported not 

 far to the west. 



Order PSITTACL Parrots, Macaws, Paroquets, etc. 

 Family PSITTACIDAE. Parrots, Macaws and Paroquets. 



CONUROPSIS CAROLINENSIS (Linn.). 



CONUROPSIS CAROLINENSIS LUDOViciANA ( Grmelin ) . Proposed 



April, 1917. Carolina Paroquet. 

 Formerly 'an abundant resident; now extinct. 



Narratives of early travel up the Missouri River make fre- 

 quent mention of the abundance in this locality of this beauti- 

 ful but noisy bird. The bottom lands were its favorite haunt, 

 since its natural food, the cockle-bur, grew, and still grows, 

 there in great profusion. It ranged in flocks over the surround- 

 ing country and was a familiar color note in the landscape. 



It is authoratively stated to have nested in hollow trees in 

 the dense forests of the Missouri River flood-plains during the 

 times of its abundance here. 



There is a specimen in the Public Library taken by Bryant 

 in 1894. This was no doubt a straggler as Widmann states 

 that the flocks of Paroquets seem to have faded from Missouri 

 with the fifties. 



In some unaccountable manner a lone bird strayed into the 

 Courtney bottoms in 1912 and was observed by Bush for sev- 

 eral weeks before it finally disappeared. 



Order COCCYGES. Cuckoos, etc. 



Suborder Cuculi. Cuckoos. 



Family CUCULIDAE. Cuckoos, Anis, etc. 



Subfamily Coccyzinae. American Cuckoos. 



COCCYZUS AMERICANUS AMERiCANus (Linn.). Yellow-billed 



Cuckoo. 

 Common summer resident. 



The first day of May usually sees the first Cuckoo here from 



