parroquets

He looked up and round; the birds had ceased to chirp; the parroquets were hiding behind the leaves; the monkeys were clustered motionless upon the highest twigs; only out of the far depths of the forest, the campanero gave its solemn toll, once, twice, thrice, like a great death-knell rolling down from far cathedral towers.

Westward Ho! 2007

Mr. Poole states that the small scolloped parroquets passed over his head from the north – west in thousands; and he observed many new birds.

An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre 2004

Others soon follow his example; lories and parroquets cry shrilly, cockatoos scream, king-hunters croak and bark, and the various smaller birds chirp and whistle their morning song.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

I continued also to get specimens of the lovely little king-bird occasionally, as well as numbers of brilliant pigeons, sweet little parroquets, and many curious small birds, most nearly resembling those of Australia and

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Cockatoos, lories, and parroquets were really the only common birds.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The first thing I saw here was a flock of small parroquets, of which I shot a pair, and was pleased to find a most beautiful little long-tailed bird, ornamented with green, red, and blue colours, and quite new to me.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

There was sufficient wood, however, to harbour abundance of parroquets — brilliant little glossy green fellows, that shot past you now and again with

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004

From before our equipage fled squirrels, field-mice, parroquets of brilliant colors and deafening loquacity.

The Master of the World 2003

It was a strangely still wood for the tropics, -- no chattering parroquets, no screaming magpies, none of the sneering, gibing dissonances that I had been accustomed to, -- all was silent, and yet intensely living.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

White and black cockatoos, parrots and parroquets, were every where found.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 Various