parrakeets

In the stone rotunda, decorated with crown-embroidered velvet chairs and almost medieval tapestries, parrakeets sat on gilded lotos columns.

Babbit 2004

Lions, tigers, and bears, serpents as big round as your thigh, parrakeets of every color under the sun.

Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

A hint that you have crossed into a warmer climate - parrots, parrakeets, and doves for sale.

A hint that you have crossed into a warmer climate - parrots, parrakeets, and doves for sale. The big parrot on the top costs 1,000 pesos. Looking east on the bandstand toward the church. 1996

There are dear little green parrakeets, too, who fly about in flocks in

The Children's Book of London

Already might be heard the hoarse voice of crows, and the screams of hundreds of bright-hued parrakeets, descending for their feast on the precious grain.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

All day long the green parrakeets flashed in and out of the pipal-trees, screaming and chattering, while the river wound blue among the yellow sands outside the wall; but to-night the only sound in them was the whispering of the leaves as the south wind passed, and both the river and the sands lay silver gray in the starlight.

The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan

The majority of the parrot tribe subsist principally upon various nuts, seed and fruit, while some of the smaller parrakeets or paroquets appear to feed almost exclusively upon the seeds of various grasses.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Among these may be mentioned rats, ricebirds, crows, parrakeets [sic], [7] and ants.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

"_Erythrina indica_" begin then to come out and attract a host of parrakeets and other happy chirpers.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before George Turner

His dark eyes took in the brightness of sunshine and moonrays, he slept on his red sleeping-mat under the shade of gorgeous blossoms, waking to the sound of water and the scream of red and green parrakeets, and his tiny hands were raised, with coos of excitement, to catch these bright-hued creatures flitting from branch to branch above him.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various