![Yes, THAT Edward Lear. No wonder he developed such an eye for the absurd…
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, AKA tricolor-crested cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri, synonym: plyctolophus leadbeateri).
Edward Lear, from Natural history of parrots, by Prideaux John Selby, Edinburgh, 1836.
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Yes, THAT Edward Lear. No wonder he developed such an eye for the absurd…
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, AKA tricolor-crested cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri, synonym: plyctolophus leadbeateri).
Edward Lear, from Natural history of parrots, by Prideaux John Selby, Edinburgh, 1836.
(Source: archive.org)
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