tiful bird, have been able to enlighten us on this subject. In winter 1892 my friend, the 

 late Capt. B. F. Goss, went to Florida with the special purpose of collecting, if possible, 

 the eggs of this Parrot. He spent much of his time at Kissimmee, and up on the 

 Manatee and Caloosahatchee Rivers, but all his efforts were in vain. He found the 

 birds, but no one could give him information where they nested. He penetrated the 

 deep interior of the cypress swamps and the tropical forests in the vicinity of the Ever- 

 glades. His guide, an old hunter, had observed the birds for more than a quarter of a 

 century, but he could tell him nothing about the nesting habits. Mr. Goss came back 

 from his very painstaking and expensive excursion quite disappointed. Thus the once 

 so abundant bird will in all probability soon be exterminated, and we have no know- 

 ledge about its nesting habits. Most ornithologists infer that it breeds in cavities of 

 tall trees, while Prof Wm. Brewster was told by a very reliable gentleman that the 

 Carolina Parrot builds a nest made of sticks placed on the branches of cypress trees. 



NAMES: Carolina Paroquet, Carolina Parakeet, Parakeet, Carolina Parrot, Illinois Parrot, Orange-headed 

 Parrot. — Karolina-Sittich (German). 



SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Psittacus caroliaensis Linn. (1758). CONURVS CAROLINBNSIS Lesson (1831). 



DESCRIPTION: "Head and neck all round, gamboge-yellow; the forehead, from above the eyes, with the 

 sides of the head, pale brick-red. Body generally with tail, green, with a yellowish tinge beneath. 

 Outer webs of primaries, bluish-gi-een, yellow at the base; secondary coverts edged with yellowish. 

 Edge of wing, j'ellow, tinged with red ; tibia, yellow. Bill, white ; legs, flesh-color. 

 Length about 13.00 inches; wing, 7.50; tail, 7.10 inches." 





