. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 496 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —RAPTOBES. 28. Family PSITTACID^: Parrots. See above. Twu ciirotiils, the left superficial. All New World Parrots belong here (but all P
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. 496 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —RAPTOBES. 28. Family PSITTACID^: Parrots. See above. Twu ciirotiils, the left superficial. All New World Parrots belong here (but all PsittacidcE are nut of the New World). 39. Subfamily ARIN/E: Parrots. See above. Ambiens muscle, tufted oil-gland and complete fiirculum. Of this subfamily the Macaws {Ara) and our species of Conwits are characteristic. 159 CONU'RUS. (Gr. Koims, konos, a cone; ovpa, oura, tail; cuneate-tail.) Parroquets. Tail lengthened, nearly ec[ualling wings, cuneatc, with tapering feathers. Face entirely feathered excepting a shght space about the eye. Nostrils in the feathered cere. Bill very stout, with bulging lateral outline, broadly rounded culmen, and toothed ov lobed commissure. Tarsi very short, much less than the inner anterior toe ; outer anterior longer than outer pos- terior toe. Feet granular-reticulate, becoming scutellate on the toes. Wings pointed; in our species the 2d and od primaries longest, the 1st and 4th subequal and shorter. A large genus of tropical America, with one U. S. species. 460. C. carolinen'sis. (Lat. Carolinian. Figs. 34G, 347.) CAROLINA Parroquet. Green; head yellow; face red: bill white; feet flesh-color; wings more or less variegated with blue and yi'llow. Sexes alike. lo»»i/simply green. Length ; extent ; wing ) ; tail ( Southern States ; u)! the Mississippi Valley to the Missouri region; W. to Arkansas and the Indian Territory ; recently Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc. ; formerly strayed to Pennsylvania and Ne
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