'The Crested Cockatoo' mb-code 1194417 Queen Victoria at the Guildhall

Queen Victoria at the Guildhall banquet

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Elizabeth Canning

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'The Crested Cockatoo' mb-code 1194417 Queen Victoria at the GuildhallOrnithological study of a Sulphur crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) native to Australia. Plate 26 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The bird seems liable to great variation both as to size and colour; the white in some being of much purer appearance than in others, and the yellow on the crest and tail more predominant. All the varieties agree in having the beak