404 BIRDS — PSITTACI^. 



Formerly a visitor, in probably all parts of the State in summer, and 

 breeding in the southern if not other portions, but has not made its ap- 

 pearance for several years. 



Wilson, after mentioning their occurrence near Lake Michigan in 

 latitude 42°, and twenty-five miles northwest of Albany, N. Y., says : 



'"In descending the Ohio, by myself in the month of February, I met with the first 

 ' flock of Farroqaeta at the-mouth of the Little Scioto. I had been informed by an old 

 and respectable inhabitant of Marietta, that they were sometimes, though rarely, seen 

 there. I observed flacks of them, afterwards, at the month of the Great and Little 

 Miami, and in the neighborhood of the numeroas creeks that discharge themselves into 

 the Ohio." 



In 1831, Audubon says : 



" Oar Parrakeets are very rapidly diminishing in number, and in some districts, where 

 twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen. At that 

 period they could be procured as far up the tributary waters of the Ohio as the Great 

 Kanawha, the Scioto, the heads of Miami, the month of the Manimee [Maumee] at its 

 junction with Lake Erie, on the Illinois River, and sometimes as far northeast as Lake 

 Ontario, and along the Eastern districts as far as the bonndary-line between Virginia 

 and Maryland. At the present day ver; few are to be found higher than Cincinnati, 

 nor is it until you reach the mouth of the Ohio that Parrakeets are met with in consid- 

 erable numbers. I should think that along the Mississippi there is not now half the 

 number that existed fifteen years ago. 



In- 183j8, Atwater writes : 



' ' A few years ( ooe Parroquets, in large flocks, lived in the woods along the Ohio Eiver 

 from Millers' B . tom downwards, and along the Scioto River, upward from its mouth to 

 where Colum'us now stands. They are still in the bottoms below Chillicothe, near the 

 river, whom there is the proper food fur them to eat, and birds enough for them to tor- 

 ment by their squalling noise." 



Dr. Kirtland in 1838, notes : 



" The Parrakeets do not usually extend their visits north of the Scioto, though I am 

 informed, perhaps on doubtful authority, that thirty years since flocks of them were 

 seen on the Ohio at the mouth of Big Beaver, thirty miles below Pittsburgh." 



Mr. Read in 1863, says : 



" A few years ago a flock of these birds appeared in Talmadge, Summit Co., as I was 

 informed by my friend, Rev, Sam'l. Wright. Have myself never seen them in the 

 Reserve." 



Mr. Langdon says : 



" Mr. Joseph Settle tells me that Parroquets occurred in large numbers near Madison- 

 ville, during the summer of 1837, '38 and '39. Few were seen in 1840, and none after 

 that year. He describes them as a " green bird," appearing in flocks, like Blackbirds, 

 makingalondohatteringnoise, and destroying a considerable amount of fruit. Mr. Dury 

 notes, on the authority of Giles Richards, Esq., their occurrence at Matson's Mills, near 



