Word: parakeet
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...parrot eats our crops"-my son interrupted my reading-"and poor parakeet gets an ill name. . . . Their bitter sorrow in North America must be the effect of a certain embargo they are removing just now in a hurry. While Brazil was the first Government to proclaim neutrality, the United States was reacting economically...
...rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million in 1926. Beavers "were butchered to make ugly hats...