144 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



eluding tail, green, the forehead orange or orange-red (more dull in 

 young) ; adults with neck and part of head uniform yellow, the fore- 

 head and sides of head reddish orange. 



Range. — Southeastern United States. (Monotypic.) 



CONUROPSIS CAROLINENSIS CAROLINENSIS (Linnams). 



CAROLINA PAROQUET. 



Adults {sexes alike) .—Forehead, anterior portion of crown, loral 

 and suborbital regions, and upper part of malar region, orpiment 

 orange; rest of head and neck (all round) clear lemon yellow; back 

 and scapulars clear yellowish green (between paris green and apple 

 green), the rump brighter and less yellowish green (yellowish emerald 

 green); lesser and middle wing-coverts deep paris green margined 

 with paler and brighter green; greater. coverts and proximal seconda- 

 ries (tertials) more yellowish green, paler and more yellowish (apple) 

 green terminally and along distal margin of outer webs; secondaries 

 (except innermost ones) and primary coverts dark green (yellowish 

 terre-verta or French green), the primaries similar but becoming 

 darker and duller terminally (especially on inner webs, where passing 

 into dusky on margin), the longer primaries (except outermost) 

 broadly edged with pale greenish yellow (citron yellow) basally; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail clear light parrot green with black shafts, 

 the shafts of middle rectrices whitish basally; under parts of body, 

 including foreneck and under tail-coverts, clear light apple green 

 (slightly tinged, especially on foreneck and chest, with emerald 

 green), the under wing-coverts similar but more yellowish green, 

 sometimes intermixed with yellow; "bend" of wing orange inter- 

 mixed more or less with yellow, the carpo-metacarpal region yellow, 

 sometimes tinged or intermixed with orange; anal region and lower 

 portion of thighs yellow, sometimes tinged with orange; under pri- 

 mary coverts and under surface of primaries brownish gray, tinged 

 with yellowish olive, the under surface of tail similar but more 

 strongly tinged with yellowish olive; bill light cream-buff or cream 

 color; iris dark brown; bare orbital space pale flesh color or pinkish 

 white; legs and feet pale flesh color or pinkish white (in life). 



Young. — Essentially like adults but without any yellow on head 

 or neck, which are green except forehead and loral region, which are 

 tawny-orange, the feathers bordering naked orbital space (except 

 anteriorly) brownish; no yellow nor orange on edge of wing, thighs, 

 nor anal region, which are wholly green. (This plumage lasts but a 

 few weeks, the full adult plumage being assumed, by gradual molt, 

 before end of the first year.) 



Immature. — Variously intermediate between the adult and young 

 plumages, according to age. 



