'Red Shouldered Paroquet' Holdals and figures on the quayside

and figures on the quayside

'Benefits of a plentiful harvest'

by William Clift

Freddie Dixon's Riley in action on the banking at Brooklands

'Red Shouldered Paroquet' Holdals and figures on the quaysideOrnithological study of the Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) a bird native to Australia and Tasmania. Shown perched on a low tree branch. Plate 49 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'This species appears to be new the general colour of the bird a fine green: the outer edge of the wing, near the shoulders, blue: the edge of the shoulders deep red' The plate is