[Honda-C70] Re: "Parakeet" Yellow?

 

I never knew there were coal mines on the South side of Chicago, quell surpris!

That's why that Woolworth's lasted as long as it did, the mining industry. Ha!

--- In Honda-C70@yahoogroups.com, myron andrews <mvandrews13@...> wrote:
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> The little yellow ones were more expensive because miners used them as a" safety men". If the bird fell off his perch DEAD ,you got out fast or joined him . There are still Woolworth store but they are craft stores now ,any birds are fake. Baby Huey
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> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:12:26 +0000
> Subject: [Honda-C70] Re: "Parakeet" Yellow?
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> Interesting. The onlu place I ever heard them referred to as Budgerigars was in the UK.
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> I was thinking of the ones they used to sell in the back of FW Woolworth when there still were Woolworth stores. They labeled the green ones "parakeets", they sold back then for around $5.00 and the bright yellow "canaries" were a little more expensive at around $7.50 or so.
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> --- In Honda-C70@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <westernsaga@> wrote:
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> > The green bird you're thinking of is the budgie, or Budgerigar. The term 'parakeet' is a generic term for a number of unrelated small parrots, some of which are indeed yellow.
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> > --- In Honda-C70@yahoogroups.com, "Donald Petersen" <dpeter1946@> wrote:
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> > > OK, the Monza Red and the other colors kind of make sense to me, but Parakeets are green, where did some Japanese paint producer get yellow for parakeets?
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> > > Are there yellow parakeets in Japan or were they thinking canaries and it got lost in the translation?
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