Cacatoos de Banks. Psithrichas de Pesquet parrots engraving c1836.

by Pourrat

Banksían Cockatoo, and Vulturine Parrot or Dracula Parrot antique print... showing the dark blue-green sheen when the sun is on the black wings of Banks's Red-tailed Black Cockatoo of Australia. The Vulturine Parrot is an endangered bird of Papua New Guinea.

Fine original hand-coloured copper-engraving published Paris circa 1836 by Pourrat Brothers for Zoology Professor, Paris Natural History Museum, Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville sur Illon, Comte de Lacepede (1756-1825), updating the complete works of Buffon.

This page is a little soiled. 245 x 150mm (9.1/2 x 6 inches).