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Parrakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, passenger pigeon, whooping crane, pinnated grouse; bison, elk, beaver.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

Next uncle Brown showed Charley a bird, called the Parrakeet.

From Charley's Museum A Story for Young People by Unknown

Prof. Burmeister found this Parrakeet not uncommon on the borders of the sierra near Mendoza.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Genus V. This bird is about the size of the Guinea Parrakeet.

From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Phillip, Arthur

The Yellow Parrakeet, with its blue cheeks, is a "harmony in blue and canary yellow, and is an exceedingly lovely bird."

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert