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Sulphur-crested Cockatoo at the court of Elizabeth I

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Subject: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo at the court of Elizabeth I
From: (John Leonard)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:40:28 +1100 (EST)
A survey of Tudor portarits including parrots would be needed to answer this
one definitely, but I don't see why a genuine Sulphur-crested couldn't have
been taken as a chick in northern Australia by Indonesian traders and
brought back to Java, say, and then been sold to European traders, and
thence to Europe and the court of Glenda Jackson. They are very long-lived,
after all.




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