'The Lesser White Cockatoo with a Yellow Crest' Size:M: 50 x 40cm Thompson wears a blue sash

Thompson wears a blue sash and a just-visible decoration

Peter Asher and Gordon Waller

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descripion and coat of arms in decorative frames above

'The Lesser White Cockatoo with a Yellow Crest' Size:M: 50 x 40cm Thompson wears a blue sashOrnithological study of a Yellow crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea, a parrot native to islands of South east Asia, including Timor. The bird is shown on a low tree branch and there is an inset profile of the head. Plate 317 from chapter 107 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 lesser Cockatoo with a yellow