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Four months in a sneak-box : a boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and along the Gulf of Mexico (1879)

Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes), 1837-1902 · Boston : Lee & Shepard ; New York : C.T. Dillingham · leaf 142

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--hood, but what had so far eluded my eager e^cs.I felt certain these stransfc cries must come fromthe Carolina Parrot, or Parakeet (^Conunis Caro-linensis), which, though once numerous in allthe country west of the Alleghanics as far nortli FOUR :months in a sneak-box. 125 … as the southern shores ofthe Great Lakes, has sorapidly diminished inu_ number since 1825, thatwe lind it only as an oc-, >vv ^ casional inhabitant of the^wAA^^ middle states south of theOhio River. In fact, thisspecies is now chieflyJ confined to Florida, west-ern Louisiana, Texas, Ar-kansas,…

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