Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in Renaissance painting

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 05:08:09PM +1100, brian fleming wrote:
>   The Tigers occasionally seen in Rome probably came from Persia -

They may have been mostly Caspian Tigers but Indian ambassadors are
said to have brought Augustus a Tiger, as well as snakes & birds which
some think were Cobras & Monals.

Incidentally there are pre-Renaissance European painting of a Cockatoo.
Frederick II was given a White Cockatoo by the "Sultan of Babylon"
in  1229 and there are pictures in "De arte venandi cum avibus":
http://digi.vatlib.it/view/bav_pal_lat_1071/0001?page_query=18v&navmode=struct&action=pagesearch

The "Cockatoo "in Madonna della Vittoria is less convincing.
I showed it to a friend (who hadn't seen the story ).  Her guess was
Crested Pigeon, and my first thought was Grey Go-Away-Bird.

Andrew