Carolina parrot

That was the same year and the same place where the last representative of the Carolina parrot (Corunopsis carolinensis)--the only psittacid of the region, which was persecuted relentlessly for the damage it caused to vegetable gardens and fruit trees and for its value as a cage bird--also died.

And if only Southern woodlands still had their flocks of green-yellow-orange Carolina parrots, which really do look gaily tropical, even next to Audubon's print.