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A Young Mount Pitt bird - natural size [Petrel], ca 1792 / Sydney Bird Painter1792

by Sydney Bird Painter

Hunted to near extinction on Norfolk Island in the 1790s, the Mount Pitt bird is featured in many First Fleet journals and was painted by several artists.