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C1917
PARADISE PARROT
Artist:
Roland Green
Distribution: Presumed extinct, last sighting was in 1921 when C.H.Jerrard, a cattleman in the Burnett River Region reported having found an occupied nest. To prove his claim, he sent photographs of birds at their nest in a termite mound. Today … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
PARADISE PARROT
Date:
C1917
Artist:
Roland Green
Engraver:
Witherby & Co
Condition:
Technique:
Original hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
240mm
x 335mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1917
Description:
Distribution: Presumed extinct, last sighting was in 1921 when C.H.Jerrard, a cattleman in the Burnett River Region reported having found an occupied nest. To prove his claim, he sent photographs of birds at their nest in a termite mound. Today these photographs remain the only ones of the living birds ever taken. First described by Gould Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1838.
