parrakeet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Alabama: Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet; puma, elk, gray wolf, beaver.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
This parrakeet is the only member of its order that ranged into the United States during our own times, and with its disappearance the Order Psittaciformes totally disappears from our country.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
Ohio: Pigeon, wild turkey, pinnated grouse, northern pileated woodpecker, parrakeet; white-tailed deer, bison, elk, black bear, puma, gray wolf, beaver, otter, puma, lynx.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
In another parrakeet of the same country “some individuals have the band across the wing-coverts bright-yellow, while in others the same part is tinged with red.”
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles
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
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