Glimpses of paradise : the quest for the beautiful parrakeet
The history of the Paradise Parrot - from its 'discovery' in the 1800s to its extinction in the 1920s and how claims of sightings have continued to the present day
Print Book, English, 2007
National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2007
xvii, 259 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimile, maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
9780642276520, 0642276528
190786066
Major historical players in the paradise parrot's story
'The most beautiful of the whole tribe' : an introduction : naming Mr. Gilbert's 'totally new parrot'
'A sacrifice to their ardour' : the rage for scientific collecting : John Gilbert, John Gould and the earliest paradise parrot specimens
'As soberly clad as her mate is gay' : the female paradise parrot ; the collecting expeditions of Edward Kennedy, 1847, and Dr. Carl Lumholtz, 1881
'A Queenslander' : the paradise parrot's geographical distribution
'A desirable addition to our aviaries' : attempts to keep and breed the paradise parrot in captivity
'The whole episode reeks of mystery' : the nests and eggs of the paradise parrot : the Barnard brothers (1880s) and Bob Guyatt (1960s)
'Forsaken anthills' : from parrot nests to tennis courts : termite mounds and the paradise parrot
Of moths and men : on the trail of a second extinction : the moths of the anthill parrots
'Search for the beauty-bird of the Burnett' : Alec Chisholm, Cyril Jerrard and the 1920s quest for the 'lost' parrot
The woman 'of the open ways' and the student : mistaken or misleading? : Florence Irby and Chris Kiernan
Crooks, counterfeits and contraband : Sir Edward Hallstrom and Joe Mattinson : illegal trapping and paradise parrot look-alikes
'From our travels and fruitless searches' : rumours, sightings ansd expeditions
1960s onwards
'A victim to the power of man' : the paradise parrot's demise
The paradise parrot on the NLA website