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 18

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ROSE HILL PARROT, PAROQUET and GROUND PARROT  

These birds not only please the eye from their  great Beauty but when tamed the first  two may  be (?) very amusing with (?), the last resorts on the ground and never in Trees, from which it takes its Name.

Native Names

Rose Hill " Toonang

Paraquet " Koolide

Ground Parrot " Cullatine (?)

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