Red shining parrot, Prosopeia tabuensis.

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Red shining parrot, Prosopeia tabuensis. Tabuan parrakeet, Psittacus tabuensis. Hand-coloured steel engraving by Joseph Kidd (after John Audubon) from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Brown's "Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots," Edinburgh, 1833. The Miscellany was intended to be a multi-volume series, but was brought to an abrupt halt after only the second volume on cats when John Audubon complained about the unauthorized use of his illustrations.

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Size: 2987px × 5107px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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