Sorry Geoffrey, I didn't mean to imply that they don't partake of fowl,
just that they're unlikely to account for any population decline.
You're right about the source of the image - I just checked my old
MacMillans facsimile copy. One can only assume that he had mammal
draughtsmen/women who were separate from his bird-illustrating team!
Ian
Geoffrey Dabb wrote:
Some
evidence to the contrary, Ian. Not having had much experience
of Quolls, I tend to think of the illustration in the Weekly Times
Nature Book,
published many, many years ago. I think the original may have been
from
Gould’s ‘Mammals’. Any wotsit specialists care to try
for the identity of the parrot? Perhaps a juvenile ‘Norwegian Blue’?
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