'The Blue-headed Parrot' mb-height 5495 The observatory was designed and

The observatory was designed and constructed in 1837 by W

View of nos 22 and 23 Farringdon Street with the entrance to Wheatsheaf Yard

Saturday 7th May

c1878-1907

'The Blue-headed Parrot' mb-height 5495 The observatory was designed andOrnithological 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