The warbling Grass Parrakeet leaves the nest thirty-three days after being hatched, and may be seen flying about two days later.
Gould informs us that the Ground Parrakeet is spread over all parts of South Australia, including Van Dieman's Land; in the northern latitudes of that continent it has never been observed.
The flesh of the Ground Parrakeet is considered very excellent; it is more tender than that of a snipe, and in flavour not unlike that of the quail.
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.
Attempts to naturalize that well-known Australian grass-parrakeet the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) in England have so far proved abortive, and none of the species experimented with in Norfolk and Bedfordshire effected a settlement.
There has also been very little naturalization of parrots, but the rosella parrakeet of Australia (Platycercus eximius) is being propagated by escaped captives in the north island of New Zealand, and its ally the mealy rosella (P.
I am going to trade him a package of tracts and that cunning parrakeet for milk.
That Carolina parrakeet is mentioned almost all the way across Kansas by the Oregon Trail men, and it used to be thick in middle Illinois.
Everywhere else than in Florida, the Carolina parrakeet has long been extinct.
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.
The mountain racket-tailed parrakeet was discovered by Whitehead in the mountains of Abra and Lepanto Provinces.
The name parrakeet (the same as parrokeet, parakeet, paroquet, etc.
Australian parrakeet (Euphema petrophila), which nests in holes among the rocks of high cliffs.
The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus Conurus, as the Carolina parrakeet (C.
Defn: A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird.
The scorching of the skin by the sun produces a colour which probably suggested a comparison with the bright scarlet of the parrakeet so named.
Frightened by something, the little parrakeet flies off and falls into the sea.
As a performer of tricks, however, the parrakeet is excelled by the little baya, the weaver bird (Ploceus baya).
The monkey, the nilghai, the black buck, the wild pig, and the parrakeet fatten at his expense, and never kill a caterpillar or a weevil in return.
The parrakeet is often trained as a public performer.
The hybrid was first described as a distinct species, the Red-mantled Parrakeet (P.
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