Parrakeets ranged from twelve to thirty cents apiece, talking parrots and cockatoos from one to five dollars.
A broiling day, everybody panting, parrots andparrakeets dying.
Old World parrakeets having a red ring around the neck, especially Palæornis torquatus, common in India, and P.
The American parrakeetsmostly belong to the genus Conurus, as the Carolina parrakeet (C.
They pay no regard to a Polyborus or Milvago, but mob any other bird of prey appearing in the woods, all the Parrakeets rising in a crowd and hovering about it with angry screams.
Opossums are frequently found in one of the higher chambers, when the entrance has been made too high, but though they take up their abode there they cannot reach the other chambers, and the Parrakeets refuse to go away.
We have had one of these beautiful Parrakeets in our possession, alive, for many years.
The Ring-necked Parrakeets of India, and the Asiatic Islands, are now considered as forming a particular genus.
Greatly allied to the Ground Parrakeets of Australia, but differing from them in many particulars, are the Broad-tailed Parrakeets of the same region, forming the modern group Platycercus.
In the males alone of one of the Australian parrakeets "the thighs in some are scarlet, in others grass-green.
The majority of the parrot tribe subsist principally upon various nuts, seed and fruit, while some of the smaller parrakeetsor paroquets appear to feed almost exclusively upon the seeds of various grasses.
There were always parrots and parrakeets screaming in the fruit groves.
Even the chattering monkeys, parrots, and parrakeetsdeparted the fruit groves for the smelly dark of the jungle.
She and the parrakeets were alone in the heart of the Great Sahara.
But, of course, she had lain watching the parrakeets for several hours, and now night had fallen.
Nearly every creature she had ever heard of seemed to be present, and the brilliant colours of the parrots and parrakeets made the scene as gay as a rainbow in a summer noonday sky.
At evening, flocks of parrakeets and great black orioles came to roost, courting the safety which they had come to associate with the clearings of human pioneers in the jungle.
This was as far as I ever got, for a flock of parrakeets exploded close at hand and blew the lesser sound out of mind.
All that actually happened was that a band of little parrakeets flew down and alighted nearby.
We saw Parrakeets and many small birds, but nothing new or very rare.
We have not seen Parrakeets or Squirrels for several days; Partridges have also deserted us, as well as Rabbits; we have seen Barn Swallows, but no more Rough-winged.
The True Parrots and Parrakeets are well represented in New Guinea and Australia, and assume in some cases the most lovely and delicate coloration.
Two Lories and three or fourParrakeets are found in Fiji, a beautiful blue and white lory inhabits Tahiti, together with a species of parrakeet.
The branches over their heads abounded with birds of exquisite beauty, particularly parrakeets and cockatoos, which flew in flocks of several scores together.
Some species, according to Schomburghk, are favourites with the Indians, so that we often find whole flocks of tame parrakeets near their settlements.
A party ofParrakeets progressing in this manner provokes involuntary laughter, as there is something most comically serious in their movements.
It would be hard to find a greater contrast than is noticeable between the rapid flight of the Carolina Parrakeets and their lame, helpless movements when on the branches of trees, and still more when on the ground.
They are extensively captured in Senegal, and from thence come most of the Rose-ringed Parrakeets that we see in captivity.
These parrakeets are dreadfully mischievous birds, for they visit both fields and gardens, and devour enormous quantities of grain and fruit.
Parrakeets hurtled bamboowards to roost; doves scurried off and small rails flew from our path and flopped into the reeds.
Dragonflies appeared in mid-air, martins left their nests among the beams, parrakeets crossed over from their roosts, and swifts met them coming from their sleeping quarters in hollow trees.
The greedy, noisy parrakeets were always the center of commotion, wasting more berries than they ate.
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