24 PAROQUET 



FLORIDA BURROWING OWL 



Speotyto cunicularia floridana 



A small, ground Owl, with nearly naked legs and feet and no 

 ear-tufts. The upperparts are grayish brown marked with 

 white ; the throat is white, rest of underparts barred with grayish 

 brown and white. L. g. 



Range. Southern Florida, chiefly in the Kissimmee Prairie 

 region. 



This is a representative of our western Burrowing Owl, 

 which, in some way unknown to man, has established itself 

 far from others of its kind in central southern Florida, 

 where it is locally common. It nests in a hole in the 

 ground, excavated by itself, and lays 5-7 white eggs in 

 March. 



PARROTS, MACAWS, PAROQUETS, COCKA- 

 TOOS. ORDER PSITTACI 



PARROTS AND PAROQUETS. FAMILY PSIT- 

 TACIDiE 



CAROLINA PAROQUET 



Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis 



A long-tailed, green Paroquet with a yellow head, orange fore- 

 head and cheeks. L. izj. 



Range. Formerly southeastern United States north to Virginia, 

 west to Nebraska and Texas; now southern Florida where it is 

 on the verge of extinction, if not extinct. 



Washington, extinct, known only from specimens shot in 

 Sept., 1865. 



The Paroquet has paid the penalty of wearing bright 

 plumes, of making a desirable cage-bird, of being destruc- 

 tive to fruit, and of having little fear of man. Once abun- 

 dant and wide-spread, for nearly the past half a century 

 it has been restricted to Florida, where the species will 



