ORDEE PSITTACI. 179 



Order PSITTACI. Parrots, Macaws, Paro- 

 quets, ETC. 



Family PSITTACID^. Parrots, Macaws, and Paroquets. 



Genus CONUROPSIS Salvadori. 



Conuropsis Salvadoei, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 203. Type, 

 by orig. desig., PsiUacus carolinenHs Linn^us. 



Conuropsis carolinensis (Linn^us). Carolina Paroquet. [382.] 



Psittacus carolinensis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 97. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Now probably restricted to Florida, and there only of 

 rare local occurrence; formerly from the Atlantic coast of southeastern 

 United States west to Texas, Oklahoma, and eastern Colorado, and 

 north to Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, and southern border of the Great 

 Lakes, and casually to New York and Pennsylvania. 



Genus RHYNCHOPSITTA Bonaparte. 



Rhynchopsitta Bonapabte, Revue et Mag. Zool., VI, 1854, 149. Type, 

 by monotypy, Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson. 



Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha(SwAiNSON). Thick-billed Parrot. [382.1.] 



Macrocercus pachyrhyndms Swainson, Philos. Mag., N. S., I, 1827, 439. 

 (Tableland of Mexico.) 



Range. — Mountains bordering the Mexican tableland, northward 

 casually to the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. 



