The parrot of Carolina and the cypress of America mb-height 249 The crowd in the foreground

The crowd in the foreground is watching the procession passing in front of the opticians

ca 1510-1511

View of workmen hoisting girders for bridge across Farringdon Street

'Tis the old

Below is Farringdon Street shown with figures

The parrot of Carolina and the cypress of America mb-height 249 The crowd in the foreground'Psitticus caroliniensis', the parrot of Carolina, perched on a branch of the cypress of America (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Conuropsis carolinensis, the Carolina Parakeet; Taxodium distichum, the bald cypress). This bird species is now extinct, the last specimen having died in captivity in 1918. Plate 11 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark