Superb parrot, Polytelis swainsonii. Barraband ring parrakeet, Palaeornis barrabandi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by Edward Lear from Prideaux J. Selby’s the Natural History of Parrots in Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library: Ornithology, Lizars, Edinburgh, 1836.

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