parrakeet
Britishnoun
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Delaware: Wild turkey, ruffed grouse, passenger pigeon, heath hen, dickcissel, whooping crane, Carolina parrakeet; white-tailed deer, black bear, gray wolf, beaver, Canada lynx, puma.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
Flaming red cardinals flew to and fro before the intruders, and a small green parrakeet clung upside down to a moon vine and whistled as they went past.
From The Plunderer by Oyen, Henry
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
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
Flamingo, roseate spoonbill, scarlet ibis, Carolina parrakeet, passenger pigeon.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
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