I'SITTACIU.E — THE PAllUOTS. 



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though three others are tbuiul in Mexico, and many more in South and 

 Ceutral America. A lew species occur in the West Indies. 



Conurus carolinensis, Kuiil. 



PABAKEET; CAROLINA PABBOT; ILLINOIS PABBOT. 



Psitlaca mrolinnixh, IJiiissdN, Uniitli. II, ITti'J, lliS. I'sillwus niniltacnKis, Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. I, 175.S, '.17 ; ITiiij, 141 (iicc ScniMii.i). — Wii.sdX, Am. Oiii. Ill, 1811, s'J, pi. 

 xxvi, lij;. 1. — Aim. Mni. Hini,'. I, 1.h:J'J, 13,'), iil. .\xvi. Cuniirim aa-u/inciisii, KriiL, 

 Nova Acta K. I,. ('. 1830. — I'.civ. List, 1S38. — I'l;. Max. Caliaiiis .loiirii. I'iii- Oiii. 

 V, March, 18,')7, t>7. — H.viui), llir.ls N. Am. 18.08, ')7. — Fisscll, Papagei. I, 1857, 

 478. — Sc'L. Cat. 18ti'i, 347. — Ali,i;n, I!. K. Fla. 308. t'cnlunin oiruHiicnsis, Aw. 

 Syn. 183i), 189. — In. IJir.ls Am. IV, 1842, 300, pi. (rl.x.wiii. I'sill((cit.i laduclcktaus; 

 G.M. Sy.st. I, 1788, 347. Psiltuctts Uiatiisdiuin, Vikilu l",iicy. .Mt'th. 1377. Contiras 

 ludovici<tiiii.i, (!l!AV. Catal. Br. Mils. I'sittac. IH.'iU, 3(5 (maku.s distinct spucics I'rom 

 carulineiisis). Cui'oUna parrot, Catksby, Car. I, tab. xi. — Latiia.m, Syn. I, 227. — 

 PKXSANr, II, 242. Oranrjc-hcmkd jxirrot, Latiia.m, .Syn. I, 304. 



Sp. Char. Head and neck all ro\ind gamboge-yellow ; the forehead, from above the 

 eyes, with the side.s of the head, pale 

 brick-red. Body generally with tail 

 green, with a yellowi.sh tinu'c beneath. 

 Outer webs of |)riniaries bluish-green, 

 yellow at the base; secondary eoverts 

 edged with yellowish. Edge of wing 

 yellow, tinged with red ; tibi.u yellow. 

 Bill white. Legs llesh-eolor. Length, 

 about 13.00 ; wing, 7..'>0 ; tail, 7.10. 

 Young with head and neek green. 

 Female with head and n(,'i'k green ; the 

 forehead, lores, and siiU'usion round the 

 eye.'!, dark red, luid without the yellow 

 of tibiiu and edge of wing. Size con- 

 siderably less. 



Hah. Souliiern and .-Joutiiwi'stern 

 Stales and Mississippi Valley ; north to 

 the Great Lakes and Wisconsin. 



This species was once very 

 abundant in the United States 

 east of the llocky Mountains, be- 

 ing known tiiroughout tlie Sontli- 

 ern States, and tlie entire valley of the ^ris.sissijipi, north to the (Jreat 

 Lakes. Stragglers even penetrated to Pennsylvania, and one case of their 

 reaching All)any, X. Y., is on reconl. Xow, howe\er, they are greatly 

 restricted. In Florida they are yet abundant, but, according to Dr. Coues, 

 they are scarcely entitled to a jilace in the i'amia of South Carolina. In 

 Western Louisiana, Arkansas, and tlu; Indian Territory, they are still found 

 in considerable numbers, straggling over the adjacent States, but now seldom 



Cotuints rarnlinfusis. 



