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"Parroquet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trunks of trees, for in these cases the cavity is only the support of the true house, and it is in the construction of this that the artist reveals his talent. I wish to speak of animals which remain in a burrow without making a nest there. A Parroquet of New Zealand called the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) thus dwells in natural or hollowed excavations. It is only found in a restricted portion of the island and leads a miserable life there, habitually staying in the earth ...
— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay
... upon a piece of embroidery when Jacques entered; and this embroidery was designed for a fire-screen. It represented a parroquet intensely crimson, on a background uniformly emerald; and the eyes of the melancholy lover dwelt wistfully upon the snowy hands selecting the different colors from a tortoise-shell work-box filled with spools ...
— The Youth of Jefferson - A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 • Anonymous |
Words linked to "Parroquet" : paroquet, parrot, shell parakeet, lovebird, Conuropsis carolinensis, Psittacula krameri, paraquet, Carolina parakeet, parakeet, budgerigar, parrakeet, budgie, budgereegah, budgerygah, Melopsittacus undulatus, grass parakeet, ring-necked parakeet |
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