'The Blue-headed Parrot' Finish:Float frame Sign of the Green Dragon

Sign of the Green Dragon Inn

Etched from Nature of the bigness of life

2nd April 1955

Unicorn Hotel in Weobley

'The Blue-headed Parrot' Finish:Float frame Sign of the Green DragonOrnithological study of a Blue headed Pionus Pionus menstruus, a parrot native to Central and South America. The bird is shown on a low tree branch. Plate 314 from chapter 104 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 3 (London, for the author, 1764). The plate is inscribed: 'The blue headed Parrot, from Life. Geo. Edwards Delin: & sculp, August 22 A. D. 1761, it's native