RE: Bird Print

["Conole, Lawrie" <>]

> >      Another interesting piece of art is a large English portrait
> with a 
> >      sulphur crested cockatoo as a major feature.  The interesting
> thing is 
> >      that the portrait was painted pre-1700.
> 
> I put it down to the same culture that put kookaburras in the African 
> Jungle Jim movies. But maybe not? Any thoughts?
> 
There are other "yellow-crested" cockatoos in south-east Asia
(Nusatenggara, Maluku [aka Spice Islands], Philippines) that would
probably have been traded into Europe before Sulphur-crested Cockatoos
from Australia.

Lawrie Conole
Geelong, Victoria, Australia