London boatman saving a talking parrot belonging to King Henry VIII of England. The boatman brings the bird to the king at a window in his apartments in Westminster Palace on the River Thames. From an anecdote by English ornithologist Francis Willughby. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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