FAM. XXVI. PARROTS AND PAROQUETS 183 



Length, 11| ; -wing, 5| (5J— 5|) ; tail, 6^ ; culmen, 1. North America 

 from the Rocky Mountains eastward ; breeding from the Gulf of Mexico 

 to Labrador, and wintering south of the United States to northern South 

 America. 



ORDER V. PARROTS, MACA^WS, ETC. (PSITTACI) 



An order of about 500 si^ecies of almost exclusively tropical 

 birds, here represented by only one, belonging to : 



FAMILY XXVI. PARROTS AND PAROQUETS (PSITTACID^) 



A large family (400 species) of tropical, gaudily colored, 

 harsh-voiced, hooked and cered-billed birds ; having feet with 

 tvsro toes in front and two behind, which they use for walking, 

 climbing, and as hands. Their discordant voices are, in most 

 species, readily trained to utter the words of human speech. 

 They are inhabitants of dense forests, ^^'heu necessary, they 

 fly well. They live upon fruits and seeds. 



1. Carolina Paroquet (382. Conurus caroUninsis). — A rare, 

 southern, green paroquet, with a yellow head and neck, and 

 bright orange fore- 

 head and cheeks. The 

 bend of the wing is 

 also orange. The 

 young have the head, 

 neck, and bend of 

 wing also green. 

 This, our only repre- „ ,. -n 



' •' '■ Carolina Paroquet 



sentative of the par- 

 rots, was formerly found as far north as the Great Lakes, but 

 is becoming every year more rare and local even in Florida, 

 Arkansas, and Indian Territory, the only divisions of the 

 United States where it has recently been found. 



Length, 12 ^ ; wing, 7 J (7-8) ; tail, 6^. 



