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The bird depicted closely resembled the red-browed fig-parrot of north Queensland, except the forehead was blue, not red.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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There are also a number of threatened parrots, such as the red-tailed Amazon (Amazona brasiliensis, VU) and the red-browed Amazon (Amazona rhodocorytha, EN).
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Ye call those red-browed brethren the insects of an hour,
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various
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The red-browed hill bleats low with the lamb's alarms,
Fires of Driftwood 1922
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"Pretties 'of all!" she cried, and stood, a gentle air stirring her light draperies, until the boys at the empty guns were red-browed and short of breath in their fierce pretence of loading and firing.
Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884
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Page view page image: red-browed man was chopping wood for winter; or to patiently hold the light in the long winter evenings when the yokes were to be mended or the harness repaired.
Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family 1854
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