In a message to Rich Veraa, Elvis Hargrove wrote:
-> parakeets grow to about 28 cm (11 in) long and are green
-> above, gray below, with dark blue feathers in the tail.
EH> Our Conures are a bunch bigger than THAT!  Don't think I've seen
EH> anything like that around here.
Maybe they get rarer as one goes west.  (like ferrets, they're illegal in 
california).
       Cheers,
           Rich
http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/
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