152 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Order PSITTACI. Parrots, Macaws, Par- 

 oquets, ETC. 



Family FSITTACID^. Parrots and Paroquets. 



Genus CONURUS Kuhl. 



Conurus Kuhl, Consp. Psitt. 1820, 4. Type, Psittacus caroli- 

 nensis Linn. 



382. Conurus carolinensis (Linn.). 

 Carolina Paroquet. 



Psittacus carolinensis Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 97. 

 Conurus carolinensis Less. Traite, 1831, 211. 



[B 63, C 315, R 392, C 460.] 



Geog. Dist. — Formerly Florida and the Gulf States north to Mary- 

 land, the Great Lakes, Iowa, and Nebraska, west to Colorado, the 

 Indian Territory, and Texas, and straggling northeastward to Penn- 

 sylvania and New York. Now restricted to Florida, Arkansas, and 

 Indian Territory, where it is only of local occurrence. 



