sentences:  In "The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot" by Robert Arthur, Jr., the young protagonists look for a group of talking birds, each of whom gives a cryptic clue to the location of a valuable treasure.They are used to humorous effect in the Tintin books "The Broken Ear", "Red Rackham's Treasure" and "The Castafiore Emerald" by Hergé.In "Puck of Pook's Hill" by Rudyard Kipling, a grey parrot lives aboard Witta's ship.