. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. yORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 251 civilization, indeed in regions wliicli are practically uninhabitable. In what num- bers they still exist is impossible for us to ; Mr. William'Brewster in "The Auk" (Vol. VI, pp. 336, 337), has probably thrown more light on the nesting habits of this species than any other writer. While in Florida during February and March, 1888, he questioned everybody whom he met regarding the nesting of the Paroquet. Two professional hunters of alligators and plume birds, both uneducated men, stated that th
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. yORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 251 civilization, indeed in regions wliicli are practically uninhabitable. In what num- bers they still exist is impossible for us to ; Mr. William'Brewster in "The Auk" (Vol. VI, pp. 336, 337), has probably thrown more light on the nesting habits of this species than any other writer. While in Florida during February and March, 1888, he questioned everybody whom he met regarding the nesting of the Paroquet. Two professional hunters of alligators and plume birds, both uneducated men, stated that they had seen Paroquets' nests which they described as flimsy structures placed in the branches of cypress trees. This was so widely in variance with the state-. 382. Carolina Paroquet iFrom Wilson ments of Wilson, Audubon and others, that the Carolina Paroquet lays its eggs in hollow trees that the statement at the time was taken as a mere fabrication until it was strongly corroborated by Judge R. L. Long, of Tallahassee, a gentleman with a very good general knowledge of birds. He stated that formerly they nested abundantly in large colonies in the cypress swamps. Several of these colonies con- tained a thousand birds each, and they invariably selected a fork near the end of a slender horizontal branch for the position of the nest. Every such fork would be occupied, and he has seen as many as forty or fifty nests in one small tree. They closely resembled those of the Carolina Dove; the eggs were often visible from be^ neath. Mr. Long describes the eggs as being of a greenish-white color, unspotted. He thought the number laid was at least four or five. He had often taken young birds from the nest to rear or to give to his friends. He knew of a small colony of Paroquets breeding in Waukulla Swamp, about 20 miles from Tallahassee, in the summer of 1895, and believed they still occur there in moderate numbers. There appears to be no positive information concerning the actual number
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