Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813 - Page 30

Regent

This charming Bird is given as large as Life, but, the colours of the Artist convey but a faint Idea of the Beauty of those with which it has been by Nature adorn'd. They are indeed of the Richest kind, and peculiar to itself alone, its feathering or plumage is also remarkable, nor can the Richest Velvet vie with it, for texture or elegance of appearance. I am, I believe, the first posessor of any of its kind, and having precur'd the specimen from which the drawing here given is taken, on the same day that I receiv'd in this distant part of the World the news of the Regency Restrictions on His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, having been taken off, as a small tribute from the Esteem I bear that exalted Character, I have named it as above.