EXTINCT EXCEPT IN FLORIDA 



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Everywhere else than in Florida the Carolina Parrakeet 

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

 seen near Lake Okechobee; but 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 J. Sawyer. 



CAROLINA PARRAKEET. 



is concerned, they are only one remove from mounted museum 

 specimens. This parrakeet 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 country. 



In color this bird had a bright-green body, and yellow head 

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

 trees. 



