parrakeet
Britishnoun
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This picture represents a cockatoo, one of the parrot tribe, of which there are at least 250 species, including, besides this, the parrot, macaw, lory, parrakeet, etc., etc.
From Mamma's Stories about Birds by Leathley, Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley
Arkansas: Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet, whooping crane; bison, elk, beaver.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
Wisconsin: Whooping crane, passenger pigeon, American egret, wild turkey, Carolina parrakeet; bison, moose, elk, woodland caribou, puma, wolverine.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
He smoothed her hair away from her salt-bitten eyes, laid his cheek pat against hers, and murmured to her through the scratch in his throat, like a parrakeet croons to its mate.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie
A dejected, thin person, somewhat past middle years, in what seemed no costume but his native skin, retired shoreward with the parrakeet.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
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