Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet, was an English traveller, historian and a gentleman of the bedchamber of King Charles I while Charles was in the custody of Parliament.
Sir Thomas Herbert
Artwork by Sir Thomas Herbert from the year 1634 showing a broad-billed parrot, a red rail, and a dodo
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The broad-billed parrot or raven parrot is a large extinct parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It was endemic to the Mascarene island of Mauritius. The species was first referred to as the "Indian rav
Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet
…church of St. Crux in that city, where his widow placed a brass tablet to his memory. Works Artwork by Sir Thomas Herbert from the year 1634 showing a broad-billed parrot, a red rail, and a dodo Herbert's chief work is the Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge' the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the…
Gelderland 1601 1603 Lophopsittacus mauritianus
Woodcut from 1601, with the first published depiction of a broad-billed parrot (5, perched in a tree above).
Lithograph of the now lost subfossil holotype mandible, 1866
Life restoration by Julian P. Hume, with colouration based on contemporary accounts