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NESTS AND EOGS OF 



382. CABOLINA PAROQUET. Conurus caroUitensis (Linn.) Geog. Dist.— 

 Formerly South Atlantic and Gulf States; up the Mississippi to Missouri; up the 

 Missouri River to the Platte. Colorado; regularly to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Wisconsin, Nebraska, etc. Formerly north in the Eastern United States to Penn- 

 sylvania and the Lakes. 



In the first part of the present century the beautiful Carolina Paroquet was 

 very abundant in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, and its migrations extended 

 •far northward. It has continued to diminish in numbers until it is now nearly ex- 

 terminated, existing only in remote localities of the lower Mississippi Valley and 

 Gulf States. It is still found in some regions of Florida. On November 1, 1889, Mr. 

 F. M. Chapman read before a meeting of the Linnean Society of New York, a paper 

 entitled "Notes on the Carolina Paroquet in Florida." In this paper, compiled 

 from personal observation, Mr. Chapman writes as follows: "Fifteen years ago. 

 Paroquets were more or less generally distributed throughout Florida and in many 

 cases were extremely abundant, and even at more recent date were not uncommon 

 in numerous localities, but today they have entirely disappeared from the more 

 settled portions of the state, and we may look for them only bevond the bounds of 



382. Cakolina Hakoqukt (Hrom Biehm, alter Audubon). 



