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The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird.(Book Review)
Journal of Southern History
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February 1, 2006|
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The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird. By Noel F. R. Snyder. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 153. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-11795-0.)
This book is about a green, yellow, and orange bird, extinct since the 1930s--the only member of the parrot family of North American origin. The author had more than three decades experience in the field of natural history with independent and government organizations prior to the production of this captivating book.
Sir Walter Ralegh had seen parakeets in 1596 when he ...
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