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Identifier: halfhourswithfis00hold (find matches)
Title: Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, American Book Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 185. — Snowy Owl. 210 THE OWLS AND PARROTS In North Americawe have but a singlenative parrot (Fig.186), the Caro-lina parrot,and this isvery rare.
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Fig. 187. —Cockatoo. WOODPECKERS, CUCKOOS, ETC. 211 In the tropics they are the most brilliantly colored and vocif-erous of all birds. Over four hundred species in all areknown. They range from the beautiful little paraquets, orlove birds, which are successfully reared in SouthernCalifornia, to the great African macaws and cockatoos(Fig. 187), that look as though they had been painted fordazzling and grotesque effect. An interesting member of this group is the flesh-eatingparrot. It is found in New Zealand, and has developedsuch a taste for sheep that it is being exterminated. Theparrot alights upon the back of sheep, and with its sharpbeak tears away at the flesh, killing the animal. At onestation on the Matataahn nineteen sheep were killed in asingle month by these small birds, and in another flock ofthree hundred and ten lambs, two hundred and five werekilled in five months. The sheep owners were forced toorganize against the parrots, and men were hired to shootthem wherever foun

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