72 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



Order PSITTACI. Parrots; Macaws; Paroquets, etc. 



Mostly tropical birds, with very hooked beaks, and claws for climbing. 



Family PsITTACID^E. Parrots. 



Feed on cockle bur, tender twigs, blossoms and young fruit of the orchard trees, 

 fruit and grain. 



Genus CONURUS Kuhi,. 



172-382-(460). Conurus carolinensis (Linn.). Carolina Paroquet. 



Exceedingly rare; A. H. Boies believes he saw a pair at Mallory Lake in Hillsdale 

 county in 1860; " remarkable but hardly possible " (Dr. M. Gibbs); Dr. Robert Ridgway 

 informs me that the National Museum collection has a specimen labeled from Michi- 

 gan. Prof. Ludwig Kumlein writes me that he has shot one specimen in Jefferson 

 county, Wisconsin, and that his father, the late Thos. Kumlein, saw them in Wisconsin 

 in the forties; if it occur in Michigan it comes as a very rare straggler from the south; 

 usually seen in flocks; for a very interesting article on this bird see Auk. Vol, IX, Jan., 

 1892, pp. 49-56, whereProf. A. W. Butler gives a very complete monograph on the dif- 

 tribution of this species. It is stated (p. 50) that both Audubon and Wilson reported 

 this bird from Michigan, which is certainly conclusive. 



Order COCCYGES. Cuckoos. 



These are climbing birds with curved, not hooked beaks. 



Suborder CUOULI. Cuckoos. 



Family CUCULID^E. Cuckoos. 



Feed on insects, even eating hairy caterpillars; very beneficial. 



Subfamily COCCYGINJE. Cuckoos. 



Gekus COCCYZUS Vieii/l. 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo, reduced. 



