[Illustration SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN
Great Auk
Pallas Cormorant
Labrador Duck
Passenger Pigeon
Eskimo Curlew
Cuban Tricolor Macaw
Gosse’s Macaw
Guadeloupe Macaw
Yellow Winged Green Parrot
Purple Guadaloupe Parakeet
Carolina Parakeet
EXTERMINATED BY CIVILIZED MAN 1840-1910]

GOSSE’S MACAW,—­Ara gossei, (Roth.).—­This species once inhabited the Island of Jamaica.  It was exterminated about 1800, and so far as known not one specimen of it is in existence.

GUADELOUPE MACAW,—­Ara guadeloupensis, (Clark).—­All that is known of the life history of this large bird is that once it inhabited the Guadeloupe Islands.  The date and history of its disappearance are both unknown, and there is not one specimen of it in existence.

YELLOW-WINGED GREEN PARROT,—­Amazona olivacea, (Gm.).—­Of the history of this Guadeloupe species, also, nothing is known, and there appear to be no specimens of it in existence.

PURPLE GUADELOUPE PARRAKEET,—­Anodorhynchus purpurescens, (Rothschild).—­This is another dead species, that once lived in the Guadeloupe Islands, and passed away silently and unnoticed at the time, leaving no records of its existence, and no specimens.

THE CAROLINA PARRAKEET,—­Conuropsis carolinensis, (Linn.), brings us down to the present moment.  To this charming little green-and-yellow bird, we are in the very act of bidding everlasting farewell.  Ten specimens remain alive in captivity, six of which are in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden, three are in the Washington Zoological Park and one is in the New York Zoological Park.

Regarding wild specimens, it is possible that some yet remain, in some obscure and neglected corner of Florida; but it is extremely doubtful whether the world ever will find any of them alive.  Mrs. Minnie Moore Willson, of Kissimee, Fla. reports the species as totally extinct in Florida.  Unless we would strain at a gnat, we may just as well enter this species in the dead class; for there is no reason to hope that any more wild specimens ever will be found.

The former range of this species embraced the whole southeastern and central United States.  From the Gulf it extended to Albany, N.Y., northern Ohio and Indiana, northern Iowa, Nebraska, central Colorado and eastern Texas, from which it will be seen that once it was widely distributed.  It was shot because it was destructive to fruit and for its plumage, and many were trapped alive, to be kept in captivity.  I know that one colony, near the mouth of the Sebastian River, east coast of Florida, was exterminated in 1898 by a local hunter, and I regret to say that it was done in the hope of selling the living birds to a New York bird-dealer.  By holding bags over the holes in which the birds were nesting, the entire colony, of about 16 birds, was caught.