拍品专文
A drawing for plate 2 of Jardine's Naturalist's Library, vol.XVIII in the 1843 collected edition, first published in vol.VI of Ornithology in 1836: 'Alexandrine Ring-Parrakeet/Palaeornis Alexandri'. In the published plate a landscape setting has been added, presumably by Lizars, and the smaller branches have been altered.
Selby's text describes this bird as '...a well known and favourite species of modern times, and which is generally supposed to have been the first, and by many the only one known to the ancient Greeks, having been discovered during the expeditions of the Macedonian conquerer [Alexander the Great, hence the name], by whose followers it was brought to Europe from the ancient Tabropane, now the Island of Ceylon... Its imitative qualities and powers of articulation, and the high estimation in which it was held among the great, are also frequently adverted to by the poets.'
Selby's text describes this bird as '...a well known and favourite species of modern times, and which is generally supposed to have been the first, and by many the only one known to the ancient Greeks, having been discovered during the expeditions of the Macedonian conquerer [Alexander the Great, hence the name], by whose followers it was brought to Europe from the ancient Tabropane, now the Island of Ceylon... Its imitative qualities and powers of articulation, and the high estimation in which it was held among the great, are also frequently adverted to by the poets.'