[Ads-l] Polly

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 30 01:07:19 UTC 2017


Used unisexually for a male parrot as well, in Harry Greenbank and Sidney
Jones's "Interfering Parrot" (1896):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4MpZowd5sU

JL

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