Carolina parakeet (extinct) and eastern rosella

Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis (extinct) and eastern rosella, Platycercus eximius. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d’Orbigny’s Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849. (Photo by Florilegius/SSPL/Getty Images)

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