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SCANSORES, Illiger. 
FAMILY III. 
PS I TT ACINI, Illiger. 
GENUS IV. — PSITTACUS, Linnaeus. 
SUBGENUS — PSITTACUS, VIEILL. 
35. PSITTACUS CAROLINENSIS, WIL. — CAROLINA PARROT. 
WILSON, PLATE XXVI. FIG. I. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
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 shewn 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 Australasia. 
The species now under consideration is also known to 
inhabit the interior of Louisiana, and the shores of 
Mississippi and Ohio, and their tributary waters, even 
beyond the Illinois river, to the neighbourhood of Lake 
Michigan, in lat. 42 deg. north ; and, contrary to the 
generally received opinion, is chiefly resident in all 
