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CAROLINA PARROT. 
wings, dark dusky olive ; primaries and greater coverts, edged 
and tipt with pale yellow; second row of coverts, wholly 
yellow ; lesser, olive ; tail, deep brownish black, lighter on 
the edges ; the three exterior feathers, broadly spotted with 
white. 
The female is destitute of the black mark under the eye ; 
has a few slight touches of blackish along the sides of the 
neck ; and some faint shades of brownish red on the back. 
The nest of this species is of very neat and delicate work- 
manship, being pensile, and generally hung on the fork of a 
low bush or thicket ; it is formed outwardly of green moss, 
intermixed with rotten bits of wood and caterpillar’s silk ; the 
inside is lined with extremely fine fibres of grape-vine bark ; 
and the whole would scarcely weigh a quarter of an ounce. 
The eggs are white, with a few brown spots at the great 
end. These birds are migratory, departing for the south in 
October. 
CAROLINA PARROT. — PSITTACUS CAROLINEN8IS. 
Plate XXVI. Fig. 1. 
Linn. Syst. 141. — Catesb. i. 11 Lath. i. 227 Arct. Zool. 242. No. 132. 
Ibid. 133. — Peale's Museum, No. 762. 
CONUBUS CABOLINENSIS — Kuhl. * 
Conurus Carolinensis, Kuhl - consp. psitt. Nov. act. Ceas. Leop. tom. x. p. 4. 23. — 
Psittacus Carolinensis, Bonap. Synop. p. 41. 
Of one hundred and sixty-eight kinds of Parrots enume- 
rated by European writers as inhabiting the various regions 
* In all countries Parrots have been favourites, arising from their playful 
and docile manners in domestication, the beauty of their plumage, and the 
nearly solitary example of imitating with comparative accuracy the voice and 
articulation of man. In ancient times, the extravagance with which these 
birds were sought after, either as objects of amusement and recreation, or as 
