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green, the tips of the feathers passing into bluish- 
green. The under surface is greenish-black. The 
legs and toes are flesh red, tinged with grey. 
CAROLINA ARARA. 
Arara Carolinensis. 
Psittaeus Carolinensis, Linn. Sysl. 1. p. 141. 13 — Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 1. p. 93. sp. 33 Chas. Buon Syn. p. 41. — Sittace 
Ludoviciana, Wagler, in Abhand. <Jc. p. 656 Carolina 
Parrot, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 227 Wils. Amer. Orn. 3. p. 89. 
pi. 26, fig. 1 Id. ed. Sir IV. Jardine, 1. p. 376. — Audu- 
bon's Birds of Amer. v. 1. p. 135. pi. 26. 
The great body of the Psittaeidce, as already 
observed, are natives of the intertropical climates ; 
but the species now under consideration is one of 
the few that occurs in the temperate regions of the 
northern hemisphere. It is a native of the North 
American continent, inhabiting the United States 
to a latitude as high as 42°. Such, at least, was 
the case some fifteen or twenty years ago, when 
Alexander Wilson was engaged in tracing out the 
history of the birds inhabiting the States ; for we 
find, on turning to his delightful pages, that then it 
not only prevailed throughout Louisiana and the 
shores of the Mississippi and Ohio, but also those 
of their tributary waters as high as Lake Michigan, 
in lat. 42° N. We learn, however, from a living 
