..."Another thing about them," continued the Englishman, "that doesn'tappear normal is that they are afraid of parrots and utterly fearlessof lions...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...The walls of this room were entirely hidden by hangings upon whichhundreds, even thousands, of parrots were embroidered...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...Some are musical, and the songs are pleasant in contrast with the harsh voice of the little green, yellow-shouldered parrots of the country...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I mean the musical screech of parrots from Manyuema...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The parrots all seize their food, and hold itwith the left hand, the lion, too, is left-handed; he strikes with theleft, so are all animals left-handed save man...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Charley levelled his rifle; a sharp crack was heard ringing through the night air, answered by the chattering of numberless monkeys and the shrieks of flocks of parrots and other birds...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...Thefirst was a St Vincent bird, Chrysotis guildingi,brought home with seven other parrots of variousspecies by Lady Thompson, the wife of the thenAdministrator of the Island...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...And of this multitudeof parrots the St Vincent Chrysotis, if it stillexists, is probably the rarest...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
...We knowthat the coursers of Râvaṇas were asses, and thereforethe asses with the faces of the Piçâćâs, and the horses ofthe monsters with the faces of parrots, are the same...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...This, however, is paralleled in the Old World by the existence of Parrotsin some of the Antarctic Islands south of New Zealand...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...One peculiarityof the feet is that the bird can reverse one toe, so that it can havethree toes in front and one behind, like most birds, or two infront and two behind, like Parrots and Cuckoos...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...In the Australian regionsix families of Parrots are represented...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...The Brush-tongued Parrots, or "Lorikeets," are a purely Australianfamily...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...Indeed, the scientific names of Australian parrots givea good indication of their place amongst the glories of the birdworld...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...The seven small Grass-Parrots (Neophemas) are amongst themost beautiful of parrots...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...The young green parrots have all left their nests and are flyingabout in noisy flocks...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
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