![]() ![]() Technique: Lithograph with original hand colouring and gum arabic highlights. In his introduction to The Birds of Australia, Gould stated the reasons for endeavouring the mammoth task of documenting the ornithology of Australia "I was naturally desirous of turning my attention to the Ornithology of some other region and a variety of opportune and concurring circumstances induced me to select that of Australia, the birds of which, although invested with the highest degree of interest, had been almost entirely neglected In the absence, then, of any general work on the Birds of Australia, the field was comparatively a new one, and of no ordinary degree of interest, from the circumstance of its being one of the finest possessions of the British Crown, and from its natural productions being as remarkable for the anomalous nature of their forms, as for their beauty, and the singularity of their habits." Paper size: 550mm x 380mm (21.6" x 15"Condition: Faint spotting to lower left hand corner of sheet, otherwise in good condition. It has a very large black beak and prominent red cheek patches. Not all of the original subscribers to the Birds of Australia took up the offer to this new subscription for these extra plates, thus making these lithographs from the Supplement rarer than the others. The palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), also known as the goliath cockatoo or great black cockatoo, is a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea, Aru Islands, and Cape York Peninsula. Having taken eight years to complete the Birds of Australia (1840-1848) and in finding and receiving new recently species discovered from the more remoter northern areas of Australia in the intervening years, he decided to issue a Supplement volume. Distribution: Cape York Note this lithograph is from the rare Supplement volume to the Birds Australia, which Gould published in 1869. Common name: Great Palm-Cuckoo Binomial name: Probosciger aterrimus First described: Gmelin 1788. Rare lithograph of the best and largest colonial image of one of Australia's cockatoos, the Palm Cockatoo From his epic series, The Birds of Australia and Adjacent Islands, published for the author, printed by Richard and John E. ![]() Please enter search terms below to find similar copies. We're sorry this book is no longer available.
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