'Red Shouldered Paroquet' Product:Greetings card Plan of Regent's Park

Plan of Regent's Park

Punch has a topical dig at the spiritual industry and the 'idiots of fashion' for providing such a fine harvest for the practitioners

(in the view of Mr Punch)

Boscastle is a village and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall

Croydon is now in the London borough of Croydon

'Red Shouldered Paroquet' Product:Greetings card Plan of Regent's ParkOrnithological study of the Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) a bird native to Australia and Tasmania. Shown perched on a low tree branch. Plate 49 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'This species appears to be new the general colour of the bird a fine green: the outer edge of the wing, near the shoulders, blue: the edge of the shoulders deep red' The plate is