GENUS 5. PSITTACUS. PARROT. 
P. CAROLINENSIS. 
CAROLINA PARROT. 
[Plate XXVL— Fig. 1.] 
Linn. Syst. i, p. 97, ed. 10. — Caiesby, i, 11. — Latham, i, 227. — 
Arct. Zool. 242, JV’o. 132. Ibid. 133. — Peale’s Museum, JVo. 
762.* 
Of one hundred and sixty-eight kinds of Parrots, enumerated 
by European writers as inhabiting the various regions of the 
globe, this is the only species found native within the territory 
of the United States. The vast and luxuriant tracts lying within 
the torrid zone, seem to be the favourite residence of those 
noisy, numerous, and richly-plumaged tribes. The count de 
Buffon has, indeed, circumscribed the whole genus of Parrots 
to a space not extending more than twenty-three degrees on 
each side of the equator; but later discoveries have shown this 
statement to be incorrect; as these birds have been found on 
our continent as far south as the straits of Magellan, and even 
on the remote shores of Van Diemen’s Land, in Terra Aus- 
tralasia. The species now under consideration is also known to 
inhabit the interior of Louisiana, and the shores of the Missis- 
sippi and Ohio, and their tributary waters, even beyond the 
Illinois river, to the neighbourhood of lake Michigan, in lat. 
42° North; and, contrary to the generally received opinion, is 
chiefly resident in all these places. Eastward, however, of the 
great range of the Alleghany, it is seldom seen farther north 
* We add the following synonymes: La Perruche de la Caroline. Bniss. 4, 
p, 350. — Orange-headed Parrot, Lath. Gen. Syn. 1, p. 304. Ind. Orn. p. 
93. 
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