Zoned Parrot : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Zoned Parrot / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
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| 説明 | Picture: The Naturalist’s Miscellany, written by George Shaw and illustrated by Frederick Polydore Nodder, published in twenty-two volumes between 1789 and 1813.ZONED PARROTVancouver, below decks on the Discovery,Condemned the coastline in his journal:“The shores consist of naked rocksAnd milk-white barren sand,Beyond which dreary boundary, the groundLies covered with a deadly green herbage.”The fires had come, and stripped the heathlandHakeas and Banksias, given them to the groundTo grow anew, the grass gums greening again.They raised a rag on a stick, with British colours,Named it Point Possession, by the barren beach.The Discovery sought the harbour, they disembarkedAwhile, walked among abandoned native huts –“Wretched, humiliating”, Vancouver’s words –And left gifts: beads, nails, knives, medals,Looking glasses. Green parrots raised alarms,Bobbed their blue heads, turned their yellow necksAnd flew fitfully, loping and undulating in air,Their voices scornful like pirates’ birdsCounting stolen coppers and salvage unclaimed: “Twenty eight, twenty eight!”Source material: NM, Volume 16. The Port Lincoln Parrot, Barnardius zonarius, first described by Shaw, occurs in a variety of habitats throughout Western Australia, and in scattered regions of the east. In south-western Australia, there is a distinct subspecies with slightly different colouration and a different call, the “Twenty eight parrot”, Barnardius zonarius semitorquatus. The call of this bird resembles the words “twenty eight”. Commander George Vancouver of the Royal Navy explored the shores of present day Albany in early October 1791 aboard the Discovery, and this poem refers to a number of features from his journal. The portions in quotation marks are an abridged version of Vancouver’s own words. The reaction of the “Zoned Parrots” is imagined, but highly likely given that they are common in the Albany region, and that their behaviour in this poem accords with common observation. See Douglas R.G. Sellick, First Impressions: Albany, 1791-1901. Traveller’s Tales, Perth, 1997, pp. 1-11. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-04-08 17:49:27 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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