Dead Parrot sketch of "Death in Paradise". A joke dated AD 400, recently translated from Greek, shows similarities to the Parrot sketch. It was written by Hierocles and Philagrius and was included in a compilation of 265 jokes titled "Philogelos: The Laugh Addict". In the Greek version, a man complains to a slave-merchant that his new slave has died. The slave-merchant replies, "When he was with me, he never did any such thing!" In Mark Twain's humorous short story "A Nevada Funeral", two characters use a series of euphemisms for death including 'kicked the bucket' and 'departed to that mysterious country from whose
Vulturine parrot Vulturine parrot The vulturine parrot ("Pyrilia vulturina"), not to be confused with Pesquet's parrot ("Psittrichas fulgidus"), is a Neotropical parrot, which is endemic to humid forest and adjacent habitats in the eastern Amazon of Brazil. Until recently, it was placed in the genus "Pionopsitta", which now is restricted to the type species, "P. pileata". Furthermore, individuals previously believed to be immature vulturine parrots were described as a new species, the bald parrot ("Pyrilia aurantiocephala"), in 2002. The vulturine parrot has a total length of c. . It has a rather short, squarish tail, and a mainly green plumage, which typically