The parrot of Carolina and the cypress of America Finish:Single Anderloni delin et Sculp

Anderloni delin et Sculp

a horse drawn carriage spills its occupants onto the street and a man on horseback stumbles over a number of pigs

'Near my House'

View of the interior courtyard from the north east corner of the Royal Exchange

The parrot of Carolina and the cypress of America Finish:Single Anderloni delin et Sculp'Psitticus caroliniensis', the parrot of Carolina, perched on a branch of the cypress of America (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Conuropsis carolinensis, the Carolina Parakeet; Taxodium distichum, the bald cypress). This bird species is now extinct, the last specimen having died in captivity in 1918. Plate 11 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark