'The Blue-headed Parrot' mb-height 5495 23rd October 1963

23rd October 1963

Saturday 7th May

When they appear on screen they will not look so friendly

View of nos 22 and 23 Farringdon Street with the entrance to Wheatsheaf Yard

'The Blue-headed Parrot' mb-height 5495 23rd October 1963Ornithological study of a Blue headed Pionus Pionus menstruus, a parrot native to Central and South America. The bird is shown on a low tree branch. Plate 314 from chapter 104 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 3 (London, for the author, 1764). The plate is inscribed: 'The blue headed Parrot, from Life. Geo. Edwards Delin: & sculp, August 22 A. D. 1761, it's native