CAROLINA PARBOT. 403 



of this city, has a specimen, locality unknown, nearly pure white, with 

 scarlet nape and yellow shafts to quills. 



The nest of the Flicker is most frequently in a dead trunk at a consid- 

 erable height from the ground. It is generally excavated by the birds, 

 though not unfrequently the eggs are laid within a natural cavity. These 

 are from five to seven or even more in number, pure white, often varying 

 in size even in the same nest. Their average measurement is 1.09 by 

 .88. 



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ORDER PSITTACI. PARROTS. 

 FAMILY PSITTACID^. PARROTS. 

 With the characters of Paittaci, given on page 200. 



Sub-family SITTACINiE. Parroquets. 

 Head plain, tail long or lengthened, wedge-shaped or graduated. 



Gencs CONURUS. Kuhl. 



Cnlmen ronnded. Face entirely feathered, except a carve aronnd the eye. Tail shorter 

 than wings, 



CONUEUB CAKOLINENSIS (L.) Kuhl. 

 Carolina. Parroquet. 



Psittaous caroUnensia, Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 89. — Kirtland, Ohio 'Jeolog. Snrv., 

 1838, 62, 179. 



Psittaeus caroUnensia, Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 135. 



Ceniurua (error) caroUnensis, Audubon, B. Am., iv., 1842, 309. 



Conurus caroUnenaia, Read, Proo. Phila. Acad. Nat. Soi., vi, 1853, 395. — Kikkpateick, 

 Ohio Farmer, ix, 1860, 251.— Whbaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 361, 371 ; 

 Reprint, 3, 13; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 570; Reprint, 10. 

 — Baibd, Brewer and Ridgwat, N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 589.— Couks, Birds N. W., 

 1874, 296.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 11 ; Jonrn. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 

 1878, 115; Reprint, 6; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879,179; Re- 

 print, 13. 



Parroqnet, Atwater, Hist. Ohio, 1838, 96. 



Paittacus caroUnensia, LiNN^ns, Syst., Nat., 1766, 141. 



Conurus caroUnensia, "Kuhl, Nov. Acb, Acad. Caes. Lesp. Car.," 1830. 



Green; head yellow; face red; hill white; feet flesh-color; wings more or less 

 variegated with bine and yellow. Young, simply green. Length, 13; wing, 7i; tail, 6. 



Habitat, Sonthernmost Atlantic and Qnlf States ; np the Mississippi to Missouri ; up 

 the Missouri River to the Platte. Colorado. Iowa. Wisconsin. Nebraska. Formerly 

 north in the Eastern United States to Pennsylvania and the Lakes. Albany, N. Y, 



