Crimson rosella, Platycercus elegans. Splendid parrot. Handcoloured woodblock engraving after an illustration by George Shaw from The Natural History of Birds, published by Brightly and Childs, Bungay, Suffolk, 1815. Charles Brightly established a printing and stereotype foundry in Bungay in 1795 and went into partnership with nonconformist radical printer John Firby Childs in 1808.

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