The Spix Macaw, Cyanopsittacus spixi, by Karl Plath and published in the April 1931 edition of Aviculture, the journal of The Avicultural Society in London, England [larger view].
A reader is wondering where this painting of a Spix's Macaw is located; does anyone know?
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