CAROLINA PARROT. 403 
of this city, has a specimen, locality unknown, nearly pure white, with 
scarlet nape and yellow shafts to quills. 
The nest of the Flicker is most frequently in a dead trunk at a consid- 
erable height from the ground. It is generally excavated by the birds, 
though not unfrequently the eggs are laid within a natural cavity. These 
are from five to seven or even more in number, pure white, often varying 
in size even in the same nest. Their average measurement is 1.09 by 
88. 
ORDER PSITTACI. PARROTS. 
FAMILY PSITTACIDA. PARROTS. 
With the characters of Psitiaci, given on page 200. 
Subfamily SITTACIN At. Parroquets. 
Head plain, tail long or lengthened, wedge-shaped or graduated. 
GENUS CONURUS. Kahl. 
Culmen rounded. Face entirely feathered, except a curve around theeye. Tail shorter 
than wings, 
CoNURUS CAROLINENSIS (L.) Kuhl. 
Carolina Parroquet. 
Psitiacus carolinensis, WILSON, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 89.—KIRTLAND, Ohio 
1838, 62, 179. 
Psittacus carolinensis, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 135. 
Centurus (error) carolinensis, AUDUBON, B. Am., iv., 1842, 309. 
Conurus carolinensis, READ, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 395.—KirKPATRICK, 
Ohio Farmer, ix, 1860, 251—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 361, 371; 
Reprint, 3, 13; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 570; Reprint, 10. 
—BAaIRD, BREWER and Ripeway, N. A. Birds, ii, 1874, 589.—Couns, Birds N. W., 
1874, 296.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 11; Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 
1878, 115; Reprint, 6; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 179; Re- 
print, 13. 
Parroquet, ATWATER, Hist. Ohio, 1838, 96. 
~eolog. Surv., 
Psiitacus carolinensis, LINNZUS, Syst., Nat., 1766, 141. 
Conurus carolinensis, ‘‘ KUHL, Nov. Acb. Acad. Caes. Lesp. Car.,” 1830. 
Green; head yellow; face red; bill white; feet flesh-color; wings more or less 
variegated with blue and yellow. Young, simply green. Length,13; wing, 74; tail, 6. 
Habitat, Southernmost Atlantic and Gulf States; up the Mississippi to Missouri; up 
the Missouri River to the Platte. Colorado. Iowa. Wisconsin. Nebraska. Formerly 
north in the Eastern United States to Pennsylvania and the Lakes. Albany, N. Y. 
