404 BIRDS—PSITTACLA. 
Formerly a visitor, in probably all parts of the State in summer, and 
breeding in the southern if not other portions, but has not made its ap- 
pearance for several years. 
Wilson, after mentioning their occurrence near Lake Michigan in 
latitude 42°, and twenty-five miles northwest of Albany, N. Y., says: 
‘*In descending the Ohio, by myself in the month of February, I met with the first 
flock of Parroquets at the mouth of the Little Scicto. I had been informed by an old 
and respectable inhabitant of Marietta, that they were sometimes, though rarely, seen 
there. I observed flocks of them, afterwards, at the mouth of the Great and Little 
Miami, and in the neighborhood of the numerous creeks that discharge themselves into 
the Ohio.” 
In 1831, Audubon says: 
“Our Parrakeets are very rapidly diminishing in number, and insome districts, where 
twenty: five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen. At that 
period they could be procured as far up the tributary waters of the Ohio as the Great 
Kanawha, the Scioto, the heads of Miami, the mouth of the Manimee [Maumee] at its 
junction with Lake Erie, on the Illinois River, and sometimes as far northeast as Lake 
Ontario, aud alorg the Eastern districts as far as the boundary-line between Virginia 
and Maryland. At the present day very few are to be found higher than Cincinnati, 
nor is if until you reach the mouth of the Ohio that Parrakeets are met with in consid- 
erable numbers. I should think that along the Mississippi there is not now half the 
number that existed fifteen years ago. 
In 1838, Atwater writes: 
‘¢ A few years ''nce Parroquets, in large flocks, lived in the woods alorg the Ohio River 
from Millers’ B .tom downwards, and along the Scioto River, upward from its mouth to 
where Colum'ias now stands. They arestill iu the bottoms below Chillicothe, near the 
river, wher+ there is the proper food for them to eat, and birds enough for them to tor- 
ment by their squaliing noise.” 
Dr. Kirtland in 1838, notes: 
‘‘The Parrakeets do not usually extend their visits north of the Scioto, though I am 
informed, perhaps on doubtful authority, that thirty years gince flocks of them were 
_Seen on the Ohio at the mouth of Big Beaver, thirty miles below Pittsburgh.” 
Mr. Read in 1853, says: 
“¢ A few years ago a flock of these birds appeared in Talmadge, Summit Co., as I was 
informed by my friend, Rev, Sam’l. Wright. Have myself never seen them in the 
Reserve.” 
Mr. Langdon says: 
‘¢ Mr. Joseph Settle tells me that Parroquets occurred in large numbers near Madison- 
ville, during the summer of 1837, ’33 and 739. Few were seen in 1840, and none after 
that year. He desciibes them as a ‘‘ green bird,” appearing in flocks, like Blackbirds, 
making aloud chattering noise, and destroying a considerable amount of fruit. Mr. Dury 
notes, on the authority of Giles Richards, Esq., their occurrence at Matson’s Mills, near 
