biomedicalephemera: The Rodrigues Parrot or Reunion Red-and-Green Parakeet. It’s unknown whether or not this bird actually existed, was a sub-population of a mutation of another parrot species of the area, or is actually an extinct species.  Extinct Birds. Hon. Walter Rothschild, 1907.

biomedicalephemera:

The Rodrigues Parrot or Reunion Red-and-Green Parakeet. It’s unknown whether or not this bird actually existed, was a sub-population of a mutation of another parrot species of the area, or is actually an extinct species. 

Extinct Birds. Hon. Walter Rothschild, 1907.

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