Hand coloured lithographed plate, 55 x 36.5 cms, by J. Gould and W. Hart, printed by Walter. Two small birds, eyeing a beetle. From Gould’s last full-scale work, ‘The Birds of New Guinea’, published in 25 parts by Henry Sotheran & Co., 1875-88.
The scientific name for these parrots is now micropsitta pusio beccarrii.
