tribe I. 
SCANSORES, Illiger. 
family III. 
PSITTACINI, Illigek. 
GENUS IV PSITTACUS, Lira.EU3. 
SUBGENUS— VIEILL. 
PSITTACUS CABOLINIiPSIS, WIL. — CAROLINA PARROT. 
''‘•■Son, plate xxvi. fig. i. — Edinburgh college museum. 
one hundred and sixty-eight kinds of parrots, 
®Uiaerated by European writers as inhabiting the 
p^'ous regions of the globe, this is the only species 
rjijiild native within the territory of the United States. 
Vast and luxuriant tracts lying within the torrid 
seem to be the favourite residence ol those noisy, 
ji'' 2 ^erous, and richly pluraaged tribes. The Count de 
"H()n indeed, circumscribed the whole genus ot 
((■''''■ots to a space not extending more than twenty- 
j.^«e degrees on each side of the equator: but later 
''•'ovej.jpjj have shewn this statement to be incorrect, 
** Ibese birds have been found on our continent as tar 
M as the Straits of Magellan, and even on the remote 
of Van Diemen’s Land, in Terra Australasia. 
isL species now under consideration is also known to 
the interior of Louisiana, and the shores ol 
/'ssissippi and Ohio, and their tributary waters, even 
Jy^nd the Illinois river, to the neighbourhood of Lake 
‘lehigan, in lat. 42 deg. north ; and, contrary to the 
^ '‘erally received opinion, is chiefly resident in all 
