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Adult male.— Length (skins), 285-328 (299); wing, 175-192 (184.7); 

 tail, 129.5-157 (146.5); culmen, 22.5-24.5 (23.7); tarsus, 16-17.5 

 (16.7); outer anterior toe, 20.5-22.5 (21.4).° 



Adult fetmle.— Length (skins), 283-313 (298); wing, 179-193 

 (186.3); tail, 137.5-153 (147); culmen, 21.5-24 (22.8); tarsus, 

 16-17.5 (16.7); outer anterior toe, 20-23 (21.3) J* 



Formerly inhabiting the Atlantic coastal plain of the United States, 

 from Florida to Virginia (occasionally even to eastern New York), 

 but now totally extirpated over much the greater part of its former 

 range and so nearly extinct that only a few small colonies may yet 

 exist in remote and uninhabited parts of southern Florida. 



Definite records are as follows: 



Florida: Leon County (Waukulla Swamp, 1885); Levy County 

 (Cedar Keys); Marion County (Oklawaha Kiver, 1876); Lake 

 County (Panasoffke Lake, 1876) ; Volusia County (Enterprise, up to 

 1880; Blue Springs); Putnam County (1869); Orange County 

 (Orlando); Brevard County (Micco, 1889; Kockledge, up to 1891); 

 Osceola County (7 miles southwest of Kissimmee, 1897) ; St. Lucie 

 County (Fort Drum; Taylor's Creek, 1897; Padgett's Creek, 1901); 

 Dade County (Miami); Lee County (Charlotte Harbor); De Soto 

 County (upper Caloosahatchie River); Hillsboro County (Tampa; 

 Tarpon Springs; Thonotosassa, 1887); Hernando County (Linden, 

 up to 1889) . Georgia (up to 1849) . South Carolina (pine barrens, up 

 to 1851). Virginia (no recent records). District of Columbia (one 

 flock in 1865). Pennsylvania (Juniata River, old record). New 

 York (25 miles northwest of Albany, one flock, January, 1790). 



[Psittacus] carolinensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 97 (South Carolina; 

 based on Carolina Parrot Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, pi. 11; Psittacus 

 carolinensis Brisson, Orn., iv, 350); ed. 12, i, 1766, 141. — Gmemn, Syst. Nat. 

 i, pt. 1, 1788, 320.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 93. 



Psittacus carolinensis Forster, Cat. Anim. N. Am., 1771, 9 (Carolina). — Muixer, 

 Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 74. — Bechstein, Lathams Uebers. Vogel, i, 1793, 

 195, 699. — Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 24 and note (app.), p. 7. — Wilson, 

 Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 89, part (not pi. 26, fig. 1; Maryland; accidental near 

 Albany, New York). — Shaw, Gen. Zool., viii, pt. 2, 1811, 444, part. — 

 Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxv, 1817, 369 (cites PL EnL, pi. 499).— 

 Ktjhl, Consp. Psitt., 1820, 23.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 41, 

 part. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., land birdB, 1832, 545, part (valley 

 of Juniata K., Pennsylvania; near Albany, New York, accidental in 1790; 

 Tuscaloosa, Alabama). 



Ps[ittacus] carolinensis Bechstein, Kurze Uebers., 1811, 72. 



P[sittacus\ carolinensis Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1824, 358, 

 part; Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826 [19], part. 



Psittaccus carolinensis Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 135, part ("boundary line 

 between Virginia and Maryland"). 



Aratinga carolinensis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 136, part. 



«■ Ten specimens from Florida. 

 1957°— Bull. 50, pt 7—16 10 



