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parakeetAny of various small long-tailed parrots, order Psittaciformes, with a moderate beak. They include the ring-necked parakeets, genus Psittacula, which are very common in India and Africa, and cockatiels, and budgerigars, natives of Australia. The king parakeet is about the size of a magpie and has a red head and breast and green wings. |
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A band of braided grasses about her brow held in place a few gaudy feathers from the parakeet, while other bits of grass were fashioned into imitations of arm and leg ornaments of metal. By this time the sun was driving broad golden spokes through the lower branches of the mango-trees; the parakeets and doves were coming. |
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