140 CAROLINA PARROT. 



Bill white. Iris hazel. Bare orbital space whitish. Feet pale 

 flesh-colour, claws dusky. Fore part of the head and the cheeks bright 

 scarlet, that colour extending over and behind the eye, the rest of the 

 head and the neck pure bright yellow ; the edge of the wing bright 

 yellow, spotted with orange. The general colour of the other parts is 

 emerald-green, with light blue reflections, lighter beneath. Primary 

 coverts deep bluish-green ; secondary coverts greenish-yellow. Quills 

 bluish-green on the outer web, brownish-red on the inner, the primaries 

 bright yellow at the base of the outer web. Two middle tail-feathers 

 deep green, the rest of the same colour externally, their inner webs 

 brownish-red. Tibial feathers yellow, the lowest deep orange. 



Length 14 inches, extent of wings 22 ; bill along the ridge Ij'g, gap, 

 measured from the tip of the lower mandible, | ; tarsus f , middle toe 1^^. 



Adult Female. Plate XXVI. Fig. 2, 2, 2. 



The female is similar to the male in colour. The upper figure repre- 

 sents a kind of occasional variety, with fourteen tail-feathers. The spe- 

 cimen from which the drawing was taken was shot at Bayou Sara, in 

 Louisiana. 



Young Bird. Plate XXVI. Fig. 3. 



The young bird is known by the comparative shortness of the tail, 

 and the uniform green colour of the head. 



The Cockle-bur. 



Xakthium Strumauium, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. 373. Ptirsh. Flor. Amer. voL ii. 

 p. 581. Smith, Engl. Fl. vol. iv. p. 136 — Moncecia Pentakdria, Linn. Co- 

 rymbiferjE, Jnss. 



Root fibrous ; stem solitary, erect, branched, from three to six feet 

 high, furrowed, downy ; leaves on long petioles, cordate, lobed, serrate, 

 scabrous, three-nerved at the base ; clusters axillar, of four or five fertile, 

 and one or two barren flowers, which are green ; nuts densely armed, 

 and furnished with two beaks. 



