The egg of the Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis)
was, like all birds' eggs, "a complicated structure, which in its
design ensures optimum growth and protection of the developing
embryo" (Thomson, 1964:236). This justifies at least a certain
minimum interest in eggs by ornithologists. A dash of dedicated
fervor is also involved. This, too, may be justified, as pointed out
by Alfred Newton (1896:182), from "the pains bestowed by such
birds . . . as build elaborate nests . . . and the devices employed by
those that, not doing so, display no little skill in providing for the
preservation of their produce." Writing of a peculiar zeal among
egg-collectors, Newton noted that not only did they dignify their
passion by the learned name of "0ology," thus claiming for it the
status of a science. The individual oologist, he went on, "endured
the necessary hardships to accomplish his end, and the possession
to him of an empty shell of carbonate of lime, stained or not (as
the case might be) by a secretion of the villous membrane of the
parent's uterus, was to him a sufficient reward" (1896:183-184).
Let us see how oology served the Carolina Parakeet.
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
The eggs of parrots are "rounded, white and variably glossy.
The eggs of the smaller species tend to be more nearly round,
those of the larger being more oblong-oval" (Harrison and Holyoak,
1970:42-43). The old game of egg-collecting is more and more
sneered at, and many modern works make only perfunctory re-
ference to knowledge about eggs. Exceptions to the rule, in modern
literature, are the paper by Harrison and Holyoak (on parrots
only) and the painstakingly thorough general treatment in the
late Max Sch6nwetter's "Handbuch der Oologie." The current
emphasis upon non-egg elements of ornithology helps explain why
no records of eggs exist for a substantial number of parrot species.
The fact that, as Harrison and Holyoak point out, most parrots
also nest in holes in trees in tropical regions further helps account
for absence of their eggs in most collections. It may also be true
that, even though a few collectors specialize in collecting only
white eggs, others simply are not discriminating (or scientific)
enough to bother about such dull fare. At any rate, a preponderant
proportion of verified parrot eggs in collections is derived from
aviculturists. In this, the extinct Carolina Parakeet is no exception,
there apparently being not a single record of wild eggs that can
be accepted without reserve.
COLOR
In color, the eggs of parrots offer little variety. They are all
unmarked white (Sch6nwetter, 1963). Despite this uniformity,
collectors of eggs and the naturalists who have described them
have shown some ingenuity in devising qualifying statements.
Alexander Wilson, who certainly saw much of the American
countryside and barred no efforts to correspond with dependable
observers, never saw nests or eggs of the parakeet. Although
he was told many tales, he could come to no firm conclusion.
"Some made the eggs white; others speckled. One man assured me
that . . . the broken fragments of . . . Parakeets' eggs . . . were of
a greenish yellow color" (Wilson, 1811:94).
Bonnaterre and Vieillot (1823) correctly termed the eggs white,
but I do not know who informed them of that fact.
Audubon, with his usual firmness, perhaps after having listened
a little too attentively to some friend of Wilson's informant, wrote
that parakeet eggs were "of a light greenish white" (Audubon,
1831:139). Possibly he was writing from memory, and perhaps
it was pure invention. Nowhere in his extant background writings
is there internal evidence that he ever actually saw their eggs.
One might think that he would surely have encountered an unlaid,
complete egg in all his dissections of specimens, but, again, no such
simple observation has survived.
A little more specifically--with, perhaps, as little justification-
Elliott Coues (1874:297) recorded: "The color is white; but the
only specimen before me shows much yellowish discoloration,
like that of the eggs of many geese and ducks." The exact pedigree
of the egg that Coues had before him is not known, but apparently
it must have been the only presumed parakeet egg then in the
U.S. National Museum, one collected in Louisiana by James
Fairie in 1859 (Specimen 35, Table 1). Whether authentic or not
(I rather doubt that it is), the egg was presumably taken from a
wild nest, and it may have been stained by nest-hole contents,
as Seh6nwetter (1963) notes they commonly are.
Baird et al. (1874:590) wrote that "an egg of this species from
Louisiana"--no doubt the Coues example--was "a uniform dull-
white color." They do not refer to stains. "Ovum" (1875;editor
of the Utica Oologist or a friend of his) characterized the egg of
the parakeet as "greenish or dull white--no markings": from
Audubon and other good authorities, no doubt--with measurements
from Baird et al., which is getting the best of all worlds. C.J.
Maynard (1881:249), an active and enthusiastic young ornitholo-
gist, had been told "by those who have seen them" that the eggs
in nature were greenish-white. One wonders if he had not simply
been reading his Audubon. He later had them more properly
"creamy white" (Maynard, 1890:68), but it is not clear upon what
evidence.
Under these circumstances of rampant ignorance, it is easy
to see why an interest in parakeet eggs was alive and kicking.
Hearsay and allegations became the order of the day. Real fraud
must have also been rife, for surely a white egg would be a vulner-
able target for faking. Candidates for authentic eggs came for-
ward, as from Harry Baleh Bailey, a founder of the American
Ornithologists' Union and a collector of eggs. He had a "set" of
two (except for inner convictions of oologists, there is almost
no evidence that a set consisted of two) from Georgia. They had
been identified authoritatively--long after their collection and
far from the scene--by Robert Ridgway, who certainly ought
to have known if anyone at that time could have been sure, as
eggs of the parakeet (Bailey, 1883:40-41). Bailey described them as
"creamy-white" (perhaps the source of Maynard's revised version).
These eggs, Specimens 23-24, will be discussed further.
Although Karl Russ, a German ornithologist and cage-bird
enthusiast, spoke of the eggs as being pure white, Charles Emil
Bendire (1895:6) wrote with a more cautious Germanic precision
that authentic eggs from Ridgway's early captive birds were
"white, with the faintest yellowish tint, ivory-like." The last
term referred to color rather than texture or gloss; Bendire describ-
ed those features separately.
Oliver Davie (1898), author of a standard work on American
oology, obviously had not seen eggs of the species. Childs (1905),
Crandall (1912), and Bent (1940:7) agreed that the parakeet
egg was "pure white" or "dull white" (Bent so used the latter
term for Specimen 2).
It may be presumed that references to "greenish" and "yel-
lowish" tints, by people who really had seen eggs rather than
accounts of them, pertain to colors shining through the dried shell
from inside, not to pigmentation of the shell itself. This trans-
mitted coloring in parrot eggs, according to SchSnwetter, is mostly
yellow; in smaller or medium species, it is often white or nearly
so but also frequently greenish or yellowish but orange in one
species and more clearly green in small South American species).
Bendire (1895:6, in reference to genuine eggs) noted specifically
that, when he held "the egg in a strong light, the inside appears
to be pale yellow."
SURFACE TEXTURE AND GLOSS
Otto Finsch (1867:64), citing an older work by O. Des Murs,
vrote that eggs of parrots were "fine grained, irregularly porous,
dull and without glaze," a generalization to which there are many
exceptions. The egg, about whose identity one must be cautious,
examined by Elliott Coues (1874:297) was "of rather rough tex-
ture." Bendire (1895:6) quoted the eminent German bird-keeper
Dr. Russ who described allegedly indisputable eggs from caged
birds as "fine grained . . . and quite glossy, like Woodpeckers'
eggs." Reservations about Russ's reliability in regard to this
species will be set forth in the coming discussion of egg shape.
Bendire himself, on the basis of eggs from Ridgway's captive
birds, found the shell "quite glossy . . . rather thick, close grained,
and deeply pitted, not unlike the eggs of the African Ostrich... but
of course not as noticeable." "The deep pitting is noticeable in
every specimen, and there can be no possible doubt about the
identity of these eggs. The other eggs in the collection about whose
proper identification I am not certain [this certainly included the
alleged Louisiana "clutch" of two eggs collected by Weeks, Speci-
mens 36-37; whether it also referred to the egg examined by Coues
is, unfortunately, not clear], and whose measurements I therefore
do not give, have a much thinner shell, and do not show the peculiar
pitting already referred to. There is no difficulty whatever in
distinguishing these eggs from those of the Burrowing Owl or the
Kingfisher, both of which are occasionally substituted for them."
As for gloss, John Lewis Childs (1905:98) spoke with evident
pride of his prized eggs acquired from Ridgway (Specimens 20-22):
they had "an ivory gloss surpassing that of the Ivory-billed Wood-
pecker." On the other hand, another egg from a Ridgway bird
(Specimen 2) owned by John E. Thayer has been more recently
described as having "a very slight gloss" (Bent, 1940:7). Whether
the latter was incubated before being collected is not known.
Those belonging to Childs had not been incubated.
That eggs of parrots in general are "variably glossy" is put
down by Harrison and Holyoak. That there may be seasonal,
regional or captivity-induced or other physiological variations
is likely. Furthermore, as Max Sch6nwetter (1963:508-509) points
out carefully, caged birds lay more rough-shelled eggs than those
in the wild, perhaps because the thin outer organic layer (the
"cuticle") does not develop fully in eggs laid by caged birds.
In the whole order, he found the grain of the shell varying from
smoothness as delicate as in doves and owls, even to the extent
(especially in smaller species) that 10-power magnification revealed
little granulation. Some big parrots (Arnazona, Lorius, Nestor,
and Cacatua are mentioned) are so coarse-grained that they can
be confused with small eggs of domestic hens. Many kinds lack
gloss on the shells--"at least in the collection or after incubation,
although a gloss in the fresh condition is possessed by all except
for Trichoglossus, Psitteuteles, Glossopsitta and Melopsittacus"
(all Australasian genera). "Considerable gloss is permanently
preserved especially in Ara and Aratinga (American genera),
but gloss is always scanty in others."
The nature of the pores has not been comprehensively reported
in microscopic detail in parrots, although such a study is much
desired, perhaps with particular reference to agreement of Con-
uropsis with Aratinga. Sch6nwetter indicates that many genera,
including Ara, Aratinga, and Conuropsis, show a porous condition,
even under weak magnification. The pores are visible as deep
pin-prick holes that are sometimes browned or blackened by
collecting powdery substances. The pores tend to be rather widely
scattered. Pores in eggs of the aberrant New Zealand Strigops
(the Kakapo) are unique in having sharply angled short hair-line
streaks radiating out from them.
SIZE
Measurements of eggs from various sources are summarized in
Table 1. Some additional information and comments are added
here. Bent had measured 24 eggs of the eastern form of the parakeet.
I judge at least a dozen (probably more) of these to have been
from captive birds and therefore genuine. They measured "34.23
by 27.80 millimeters; the eggs showing the four extremes mea-
sure 37 by 38 [i.e., 28?], 33 by 30.2, 32.1 by 27.1, and 34.4 and 25.8
millimeters." Eggs of the western form (so-called Louisiana
Parakeet) he characterized as indistinguishable from the nominate
race, where "the only four eggs that I have been able to locate are
36 by 27, 35 by 27.5, 35 by 26.5, and 36 by 26.5 millimeters"
(1940:7, 13). (Whether he had authentic eggs of the western form
is questionable).
TA,E 1
Measurements and notes on Carolina Parakeet eggs
No. Institution Description, Comments
i Cambridge: Museum of
Comparative Zoology.
3 Bloomfield Hills: Cranbrook
Inst. Science.
4* Davenport: Davenport
Public Museum.
5-6* Dresden: Staatl. Museum
ffir Tierk. Forsch.
7-8' "
9* "
10-11 Gainesville: Florida
State Museum.
12-14 "
15-16 Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Museum.
17' London: British Museum
(Natural History).
18-19 Newark: Newark Museum.
20 New York: Amer. Mus.
Nat. Hist.
23-24 "
25-28 Oakdale: Bayard Cutting
Arboretum
From Louisiana, 1859; colI'd James
Fairie? ex J. E. Thayer; 4499.
tidgway captive; 29 July 1897; ex
Thayer; 4498
Entirely without data.
"33.65 x 27.2 ram." No other data
are known. E 382a.1; size is
acceptable.
"From the Zoo"; a 'set'; 2510.
As above; 2510A.
As above; 2501B.
Lake Okeechobee, 30 April 1927;
colI'd by C. E. Doe; 89434;
doubtful (Fig. 1, 2).
As above; 87234.
A 'set'; ex Shoemaker; no other
data known; ZM-8437.
"36 x 30 ram" ("1.42 x 1.15 in.");
from captive?; ex Nehrkorn;
1901.12.15.651; see Nehrkorn
1910; Oates 1903.
A' set'; no other data are known.
32 x 27.5 min.; 5 July 1901; from
Ridgway's caged bird; ex
Childs; ex P. B. Philipp; 8809;
Fig. 5.
34 x 26.7 ram; all else as above
except 12 July 1901.
34 x 28.75 ram; as above except
29 July 1902.
36.6 x 27.4 mm ("1.45 x 1.10 in.");
36 x 28.9 mm ("1.44 x 1.14 in.");
26 April 1855; coll'd by Dr.
S. W. Wilson in Georgia; ex H. B.
Bailey; 392; Fig. 3.
"1.40 x 1.10; 1.36 x 1.10; 1.40 x
1.14; 1.41 x 1.05 in.; laid in
Philadelphia Zoo; no doubt
29 St. Johnsbury: Museum cf
Nat. Hist.
30-34 Santa Barbara: Museum
of Nat. Hist.
35 Washington: U.S. Natl.
Mus.
36-37 "
42-49 "
authentic; identified (and measured?)
by Trotter; date of 24 Nov. 1885
of unknown application.
No information is known.
Supposedly coll'd at Tallahassee, ca
1884 by Dr. Albert John Cook;
original data, except that there
were six, lost; identified by
Richmond, U.S. Natl. Mus.; ex
Arden Edwards; ex W. L. Dawson.
Presumably coll'd James Fairie,
Louisiana, 1859; "36 x 28 min.
(1.40 x 1.10 in.)"; authenticity
doubtful.
Coli'd David Weeks, St. Mary's
(now Iberia) Parish, March
1878; hollow cypress; dubious;
17709.
"33.27 x 29.92 min. (1.31 x 1.06 in.)";
19 July 1878,
/from captive bird; see Fig. 6.
"34.54 x 27.18 ram. (1.36 x 1.07 in.)";
September 1883, from captive.
No data known; in Fish & Wildlife
Service collection; ex P. C. Isbell.
"36.32 x 26.93 min. (1.43 x 1.06 in.)";
August 1877, evidently from
captive bird.
Laid July-Aug. 1900, from captive.
1. Quotation marks indicate measurements from literature.
2. Underlined numbers are judged certainly authentic.
3. Numbers with an asterisk are probably reliably identified.
4. Numbers at end of Description column are accession numbers of owner-
institutions, when known.
5. "Ex" means a previous owner.
SchSnwetter (1964) was able to report upon 30 eggs of C. c.
carolinensis. The degree of overlap with those described by Bent
is not clear. He knew eggs of alleged C. c. ludoviciana only through
Bent's work, and I have not included his computations based upon
them. Using a somewhat different method of recording from Bent,
SchSnwetter summarized the situation: 33.0--38.3 mm (shortest
and longest lengths) X 26.1--30.1 mm (least and greatest widths);
extremes of shell veights 1.23 - 1.50 grams. Averages are: length,
34.8 ram; width, 28.4 ram; shell weight, 1.33 g; shell thickness,
0.24 ram; computed fresh egg weight, 15.3 g; percentage shell
weight of fresh weight, 8.7%.
The alleged Louisiana egg from James Fairie (Specimen 35)
was measured by Baird et al. (1874:590): 1.40 X 1.05 in.; Coues
(1874:297) gave it as 1.40 X 1.10 in. Maynard, making his ig-
norance all the plainer, supposed parakeet eggs to be "about
the same size as those of the turtle dove," considerably wide of
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FmuRr. 1. Two "sets" of alleged eggs of the Carolina Parakeet.. Collected by
C. E. Doe nero' Lake Okeechobee, Florida, 1927. Photograph courtesy of
Oliver L. Austin, Jr.
the mark, considering that Bent calculated Mourning Dove eggs
to average 28.4 X 21.5 ram. (Maynard, 1881:249; Bent, 1932:407).
A decided divergence from all these figures is to be found in
what one on the surface would have considered reliable data
from Dr. Karl Russ of Berlin, assuming that figures were not
scrambled somewhere along the way. Bendire (1895:6) quoted
Russ to the effect that eggs known to Russ (evidently several
clutches, although perhaps not all were really measured) as being
"very round... measuring 38 by 36 millimeters, or about 1.50 by
1.42 inches." (Note that conversion to inches is not accurate.)
A set of three alleged parakcet eggs, taken by Dr. H. E. Pendry
(about whom I can find nothing) in Florida in 1896, was measured
by John Lewis Childs (1906) and reported to be: "1.35 X 1.06--
1.26 X 1.06--1.25 X 1.05" inches, obviously somewhat on the
small side. As I shall explain in detail elsewhere, I am very dubious
of this lot; besides, the eggs cannot now be found (Fig. 4). Another
critically important case involves two sets of alleged Carolina
Parakeet eggs collected in Florida in 1927 by C. E. Doe (Specimens
10-14; Figs. 1, 2). Their sizes are (in inches, from Doc's notebook
and accession cards; in mm from more recent measurements made
by O. L. Austin, Jr.): 1.20 X .98 (30 X 28)--1.21 X .98 (31 X
26.5); 1.19 X .98 (30.6 X 25.8)--1.15 X .97 (29.3 X 24.8)--
1.06 X .96 (27.9 X 24.0). Judging by size alone, these Doc eggs
are too small to bc eggs of the Carolina Parakcct. Their shapes
(according to templates to be discussed shortly) arc varied. I
am inclined to wonder if they are all from the same individual
(or even species), although one can match each with one or another
egg shape in the authenticated Bendire-Childs series of Ridgway
eggs. Furthermore, as I shall argue in another publication, I
A
B
F(uR 2. Outline drawings of the two"sets" of alleged eggs of Carolina Para-
keet collected by C. E. Doe. From photograph supplied by O. L. Austin,
Jr., Florida State Museum. A. Three eggs at top, "set" No. 87234. B. Two
eggs at bottom, "set" No. 89434. Note: all eggs are drawn to the same width
at point of greatest breadth.
FIGURE 3. Outlines of a two-egg "set" of alleged eggs of the Carolina Para-
keet; collected by S. W. Wilson in Georgia; described by H. B. Bailey (1883);
eggs are now in American Musetim of Natural History.
FIGURE 4. Outlines of two of three eggs in a 'set' of eggs claimed by H. E. Pen-
dry to be those of Carolina Parakeet, drawn from published photograph
(Childs, 1906).
question them on the basis of their season of deposition. This is
still a kind of argument-to-a-standstill and the development of
other tests is all the more to be desired.
A final measurement from the literature may be given: 1.44 by
1.12 inches (Crandall, 1912:835); it seems probable that it was
taken on a genuine egg of the species, but I do not know which
specimen or specimens.
SHAPE
Bonnaterre and Vieillot (1823:1402), with disarming finality,
wrote that the eggs of the Carolina Parakeet were "almost round."
The source of their information is as unknown as that used as basis
of Audubon's (1831:139) statement that the eggs "are nearly
round." Otto Finsch (1867:64, 67), author of a substantial mono-
graph on parrots, may not have critically examined eggs of this
species, although captive specimens had by then laid eggs in the
Zoological Garden of Frankfurt. He quoted O. Des Murs to the
effect that eggs of the genus Courus (then, of course, consisting
of the Carolina species and many more) were "oval." But Des Murs
denoted as "egg-shaped" eggs of such diverse genera as Platycercus
and Cacatua, where shape diverges considerably, being much
rounder in the former genus, according to Joseph Forshaw (1969).
The alleged Louisiana specimen (No. 35) is described as "round-
ed oval shape, equally obtuse at either end" (Baird et al. 1874:
590) or "nearly equal at both ends" (Coues, 1874:297): as will
be seen, a rather doubtful shape for this species.
H. B. Bailey (1883) described two originally unlabeled eggs
that were collected in Georgia by Dr. S. W. Wilson. These were
thought by Bailey to be eggs of the Carolina Parakeet, an opinion
corroborated by both Ridgway and Bendire. They were said
to be "pointed at one end." I have photographed these eggs, and
tracings by Ryland Loos (Fig. 3) may be matched against the
outline of the undoubted egg figured by Bendire (1895, plate I,
fig. 1) (my Fig. 6). Their shapes match the Bendire egg more
closely than they do shapes of the three undoubted eggs later
acquired by Childs from Ridgway (Childs, 1905; Amadon, 1966)
(Fig. 5). When compared with F. W. Preston's templates of egg
shapes (Palmer, 1962:13), one of the Wilson eggs is exactly Short
Oval; the other is more elongate, being intermediate between
Short Subelliptical and Subelliptical. (In justice to Wilson, it
ought to be recalled that he did not label the eggs; identification
rests upon the specimens' merits, not his.)
Bendire (1895:6) carefully pointed out that of the three eggs
laid by Ridgway's captive birds "None . . . can be called round;
they vary from ovate to short ovate, and are rather pointed."
Surely, then, there is something wrong with Russ's "almost per-
fectly round eggs." The egg shown in Bendire's plate is, in Preston's
terminology, Short Oval precisely.
The three eggs that Ridgway sold to Childs (Amadon, 1966)-
they are not a single "clutch" and one is from a different year--
have shapes as follows: one is quite short (through blunting on
FIGURE 5. Outlines of authentic eggs of the Carc, lina Parakeet. These were
sc. ld by Robert Ridgway to John Lewis Childs; now in American Museum
of Natural History; see Childs (1905), Areadon (1966). Egg at lower right
measures 32 x 27.7 into; the others, going clockwise, measure 34 x 28.75 and
34 x 26.7 min.
FIGURE 6. Outline of an authentic egg of the Carolina Parakeet; laid by bird
kept by Robert Ridgway; from Bendire (1896, P1. I, fig. 1).
the small end) Short Subelliptical; the second is only very slightly
elongated Subelliptical; and the third is short (by blunting of
the small end) Short Oval (Fig. 5).
In contrast, the three alleged eggs of the parakeet collected
in Florida by Dr. Pendry (Childs, 1906) are, judging from the
photograph published by Childs, a more varied lot (Fig. 4). Two
of them fall nearly midway between Spherical and Elliptical (that
is, not appreciably more pointed at one end than the other); the
third is quite definitely an odd number with a classical Short
Subelliptical shape. Added to what I point out elsewhere about
these eggs, this evidence makes them less and less likely candidates
for parakeet eggs.
It may be noted, finally, that relatively little is known about
eggs of most tropical American parrots. As a result, eggs of exotic
parrots might be confused with those of the Carolina Parakeet,
especially when observation was slipshod in the first place and no
specimens of birds were taken. Eggs of the Carolina Parakeet
do, however, seem to be regularly larger than those of any species
of the genus Aratinga, rather widely supposed (perhaps a little
too freely) to be closely related to the genus Conuropsis. This may
be a critical factor in disposing of the identity of eggs collected
by Doe in Florida in 1927 and claimed by him to be those of the
Carolina Parakeet (it would settle mistaken identity; it would
hardly disprove deliberate fraud except by implication). But when
one is stumped by monotony of color, ambiguity of shape and
relative evenness in size, the only hope for eventual identification
(or at least negation of claims) lies in microscopic and biochemical
comparative work not yet done (see, for example, the paper on
falconiform eggs by Tyler (1966) for one type of study that might
be developed).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am indebted especially to O. L. Austin, Jr., Dean Areadon,
and the late Donald J. Nicholson for information. Many others,
here not named, were kind enough to supply other data. Ryland
Loos traced egg shapes, and Robert Speck provided photographic
copy for my figures. For short periods of time in the past I had
financial help from the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund (Amer-
ican Museum of Natural History) and summer fellowships from
the State University of Nexv York Research Foundation.
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