Corolina Paroquet 215 
composed of a few feathers and rubbish. Morrison took 
several nests in La Plata co. at about 9,000 feet in June ; 
they were all in pines in old Woodpeckers’ holes, but 
no eggs appear to have been available for Bendire to 
examine, 
ORDER PSITTACI. 
This order contains the Parrots, easily distinguished 
externally by their stout, strongly hooked bill, furnished 
with a cere, which however is frequently feathered, and 
by their feet, which are zygodactylous, i.e. the first 
and fourth toes are posteriorly, the second and third 
anteriorly directed. 
Family PSITTACIDA. 
Genus CONUROPSIS. 
Bill stout ; cere, within which opens the nostrils, completely feathered ; 
tail long, equal to the wing; wedge-shaped and strongly graduated ; 
tarsus very short, covered with granular scales. 
One species only in the United States. 
Corolina Paroquet. Conuropsis carolinensis. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 382—Colorado Records—Pike 10, p. 78 (Coues’s 
ed., II., p. 474); Coues 77, p. 50; Morrison 89, p. 67; Hasbrouck 91, 
p. 369; Cooke 97, pp. 81, 162. : 
Description.— Above and below, green of various shades; head all 
round and edge of wing yellow; forehead and cheeks orange-red ; 
iris brown, bill whitish, feet flesh-coloured. Length 12:0; wing 7-10; 
tail 5-75; culmen -9; tarsus -7. 
The sexes are alike, Young birds are green without yellow. 
Distribution.— Formerly ranging over all of the middle and south- 
eastern United States, from Colorado, Nebraska and New York south 
to the Gulf ; now confined to Florida and to a less extent to Arkansas 
and Oklahoma. 
Pike captured a live bird new to him on Christmas Day, 1806, in the 
upper Arkansas Valley, not far from where Salida now is. He described 
it as green with a tufted head, and he fed it on meat. Coues identified 
it with the Carolina Paroquet, but I am more inclined to think it was 
