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Parrakeet

or PARAKEET, a popular name for any of the smaller long-tailed parrots. The word is in common use, but is applied without any strict PARROT scientific limitation to birds of different genera, and even of different families.

Generally speaking, any old-world parrot with a moderate bill, long and more or less graduated tail, with the ends of the feathers narrowed, and high and slender tarsi, is called a parrakeet. a town of New

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