Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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tians and of the Portuguese, and Parrots appear not to have been transportedby the tedious trade routes of the Middle Ages. In 1455 a Senegal Parrot was first heard ofin Europe. Towards the end of the fifteenth century (1498) the Portuguese circumnavigatedthe Cape, and acquired during the next years a part of India, where tame Parrots were foundby them in many houses of natives. Columbus, too, had returned from his voyage of discoveryto America, and had brought Parrots with him when he held his solemn entry in Sevilleon March 31, 1493. In England the first Parrots were shown as a great curiosity in1504. A book of birds published in Zurich in 1557 mentions fourteen kinds of Parrots,of which seven can be now recognised by the description published 342 years ago. As acuriosity it may be mentioned that in 1707 a description and illustration of the great black * In Cuba and some West Indian Islands, parrot soup is at the present day a much-prized dis!i, 1 Cassllls Canaries, and Cage Birds.
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COCKATcEL MALE 2R0SEATE COCKATOO D° FEMALE 3. SCALY BREASTED PARRAKEET 4. LE A D B EATERS CO CK ATO 0 Parrots. 427 Cockatoo of New Guinea (Microglossa aterrimd) were published at Amsterdam, whilst upto the present day this bird is so rare that a live specimen sells in London at from ^15to £2^. In 1747 to 1764 A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, by Edwards, was published inLondon, which depicted 37 species of Parrots; Brissons Ornithologia, published 1760,more than doubled the number of known Parrots; and Lathams General Synopsis ofBirds (1781) added 45 new Parrots to those described by the former author, 25 ofthese new species being Parrots from Australia and the South Sea Islands. BuffonsNatural History of Birds (Paris, 1783) contains drawings of 82 species of Parrots.Shaw, in the Zoology of New Holland (1794), first mentions the Undulated Parrakeet, orBudgerigar, of which many thousands are now imported annually into Europe. In thebeginning of this century about 120 varieties of

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