Green-faced Parrotfinch: a colour plate from 1937. The ‘Curious Thing’ and the Shogun Connection

In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the appearance in Avicultural Magazine of the occasional colour plate. A well-known bird artist was then commissioned. Although the whole run of the Society’s magazines can be found online, the plates rarely see the light of day. Therefore I decided to show one, now and again, on this site. This is the 23rd in the series. – – – – – – – – – – The plate seems to be unsigned...