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parroquet

NOUN
  1. any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots

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  • We were then a little quiet again, and got something to eat; for while the vessels were here every bit of fish or vegetable was taken on board, and I had often to make a small parroquet serve for two meals. The Malay Archipelago
  • Gun Gallery in Stockholm, I felt that I had to direct some traffic to Show Studio's site because some spectacular videos are now up that feature the parroquet, which is a more slender version of the parrot, in action. SLAMXHYPE
  • A bird with a yellow head, which, from the ftru&ure of its beak, we called a parroquet, is like - wife very common. Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
  • A bird with a yellow head, which, from the structure of its beak, we called a parroquet, is likewise very common. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • The only bird new to me which I obtained at Lorok was the fine long-tailed parroquet (Palaeornis longicauda). The Malay Archipelago
  • Heaven knows what we might have become in that tiny plantation, for I was sick of life, and the mosquitos and flying ants, and the chattering parroquets, the grim gallinazo, and the quatre, or native bed -- a wooden frame and canvas; but one day at Kingston I met a man, one Cassandro Biatt, who had an obsession for adventure, and he spoke to me privately. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • Birds, though not remarkably numerous, are in great variety, and of the most exquisite beauty of plumage, among which are the cockatoo, lory, and parroquet; but the bird which principally claims attention is, a species of ostrich, approaching nearer to the emu of South America than any other we know of. The Expedition to Botany Bay
  • The most remarkable were the fine crimson lory, Eos rubra — a brush-tongued parroquet of The Malay Archipelago
  • Then another bird called the parroquet complained in the sky, and said: “I am your portent; ye shall die.” The Annals of the Cakchiquels
  • For birds, they moftly belonged to the different fpecies we have before noticed in the channel of Dentrecafteaux, a particular kind of parroquet and a beautiful bulfinch excepted, which was the firft of its fpecies we faw. Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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