152 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



ORDER PSITTACI. PARROTS, MACAWS, PAR- 

 OQUETS, ETC. 



FAMILY PSITTACID-ffi. PARROTS AND PAROQUETS. 



GENUS CONURUS KUHL. 



Conurus KUHL, Consp. Psitt. 1820, 4. Type, Psittacus caroli- 

 nensis LINN. 



382. Conurus carolinensis (LINN.). 



Carolina Paroquet. 



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

 Conurus carolinensis LESS. Traite, 1831, 211. 



[B6 3 , C 3 i 5 , R 39 2, C 4 6o.] 



GEOG. DIST. Formerly Florida and the Gulf States north to Mary- 

 land, the Great Lakes, Iowa, and Nebraska, west to Colorado, the 

 Indian Territory, and Texas, and straggling northeastward to Penn- 

 sylvania and New York. Now restricted to Florida, Arkansas, and 

 Indian Territory, where it is only of local occurrence. 



