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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —BAPTOEES 
28. Family PSITTACID^ : Parrots. 
See above. Two carotids, the left superficial. All New World Parrots belong here (but 
all Fsittacidce are not of the New World). 
39. Subfamily ARIN^: Parrots. 
See above. Ambiens muscle, tufted oil-gland and complete furculum. Of this subfamily 
the Macaws {Ard) and our species of Conurus are characteristic. 
159 CONU'RUS. (Gr. kS>vos, kotios, a cone; ovpd, oura, tail; cuneate-tail.) Parroquets. 
Tail lengthened, nearly equalling wings, cuneate, with tapering feathers. Face entirely 
feathered excepting a slight space about the eye. Nostrils in the feathered cere. Bill very 
stout, with bulging lateral outline, broadly rounded culmen, and toothed or lobed commissure. 
Tarsi very short, much less than the inner anterior toe ; outer anterior longer than outer pos- 
terior toe. Feet granular-reticulate, becoming scutellate on the toes. Wings pointed ; in our 
species the 2d and 3d primaries longest, the ist and 4th subequal and shorter. A large genus 
of tropical America, with one U. S. species. 
460. C. carolinen'sis. (Lat. Carolinian. Figs. 346, 347.) Carolina Parroquet. Green; head 
yellow ; face red : bill white ; feet flesh-color ; wings more or less variegated with blue and 
yellow. Sexes alike. Yot^n^/ simply green. Length 12.50-13.50; extent 21.00-22.50 ; wing 
7.00-8.00 ; tail 6.00-7-00. Southern States ; up the Mississippi Valley to the Missouri region ; 
W. to Arkansas and the Indian Territory ; recently Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc. ; formerly 
strayed to Pennsylvania and New York, but of late has receded even from the Carolinas ; still 
abundant in Florida. But it would seem that if the cruel and wanton slaughter to which the 
gentle creatures are subjected by idlers goes on, they must before long be exterminated. Gre- 
garious, frugivorous, and granivorous ; not regularly migratory, but roving. Said to breed in 
companies in hollow trees ; eggs whitish, 1.40 X 1-05, elliptical in shape, rough in texture. 
IV. Order RAPTORES: Birds of Prey. 
Bill epignatlioiis, cered; and 
feet not zygodactyle. The rapa- 
cious birds (Baptores, Baptatores 
or Accipitres of authors, Aeto- 
morphce of Huxley) form a fairly ^ 
natural assemblage, to which this 
expression furnishes a clew. 
(The parrots, probably the only 
other birds with strongly hooked 
and truly cered bill, are yoke- 
toed.) The Baptores present 
several osteological and other an- 
atomical characters. The ster- 
num is ample and deep keeled, 
its posterior margin doubly or 
singly notched or fenestrate on 
each side, or entire with central 
emargination ; the furculum an- 
chylosed or not. Angle of man- 
dible not recurved ; maxillo- 
palatines united to an ossified 
septum ; rostrum arched and 
hooked; basipterygoid processes 
