Yellow-crested cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea. (Lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, Plyctolophus sulphureus.) 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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