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Plosser and mounted by Mr. Emmett Cole; November 18, 1905, 

 a female taken near the city limits of St. Louis (Wellston) and 

 mounted by Mr. F. Schwarz; two records from Keokuk, No- 

 vember 20, 1895, and December 6, 1886; one from the vicinity 

 of St. Louis in the Hurter collection, December 29, 1875; two 

 from Montgomery City by Mr. Parker, January 13 and February 

 10, 1902; and one from Jasper Co., January 23, 1906, where two 

 birds were encountered by Mr. Johnson of Carthage, Mo., who 

 killed one of them, a gray one, from a fence-post, but let the 

 other, a pure white one, get away. For this last record I *am 

 indebted to Mr. Philo W. Smith, Jr. A fine specimen in the 

 Blanke collection was killed near St. Charles. 



[377a. Surnia ulula caparoch (Miill.). American Hawk Owl.] 



Strix hudsonica. Surnia hudsonica. Strix funerea. Surnia ulula hudsonica. 



Geog. Dist. — Northern North America, breeding from Hudson 

 Bay throughout wooded regions to northern Alaska, rare in the 

 East except Newfoundland; in the West, occasionally as far 

 south as northern Montana and Assiniboia. In winter to 

 southern provinces of Canada and northern border of United 

 States, rarely to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska 

 and even to Mississippi (Corinth, January, 1882). 



In Missouri it has been reported to the Department of Agri- 

 culture from Mount Carmel, Audrain Co., by Mrs. M. Musick, 

 December 26, 1884, March 10, 1885, and January 28, 1886; but 

 as no specimen has been secured, there is the possibility of a 

 confusion with the Short-eared Owl, which is sometimes called 

 Hawk Owl, because seen hunting in bright daylight. 



Order PSITTACI. Parrots, Macaws, Paroquets, etc. 



Family PsittacidjE. Parrots and Paroquets. 



382. Conurus carolinensis (Linn.). Carolina Paroquet. 

 Psittacus carolinensis. Orange-headed Parrot. Parakeet. 



Geog. Dist. — The former home of the Paroquet included the 

 Southern States from eastern Texas to Florida, north to the 

 Carolinas on the Atlantic slope, and in the Mississippi Valley 

 north to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. They 

 were non-migratory birds, gregarious, of a roving disposition, 

 and in their extended nights in search of food reached Pennsyl- 

 vania and New York, southern Michigan and southern Wis- 

 consin and followed the Arkansas River to Colorado. 



