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WILLIAM BLANDOWSKI (Clockwise from top left) Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita; Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris; Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalum fimbriatum; Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Zanda funerea; Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo Lophochroa leadbeateri. Hand-coloured engraving, plate-mark 26 × 17 cm; 1855. One of the proposed 200 plates for Blandowski’s Australia Terra Incognita, which was never completed or published. Blandowski also used the engraving to illustrate a report on his excursion to central Victoria around Mt Macedon, Mt McIver and the Black Ranges, published in the first issue of the scientific journal Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria (1855). The report contained his observations on geology, zoology and Aboriginal peoples. The white cockatoos, he commented, were not much in evidence in winter but returned in the sowing season when they caused ‘much annoyance to farmers’. Gang-gang Cockatoos, he wrote, demonstrated ‘the most extraordinary attachment to each other’ when one was wounded.
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