They say you can hear the parakeets screeching out from the palm-trees on the shore, and each island has a different smell of spice.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
The green parakeets had ceased to look for sweets on the veranda.
"The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories"
Ethel M. Dell
Tall gaunt trees rose out of the corn on all sides, and in the early morning they were full of bird-life-parrots, parakeets, cockatoos, pigeons, woodpeckers, gapers and hornbills, etc.
"Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines"
H. Wilfrid Walker