Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. A beautiful set of the standard reference, by the world’s leading expert on parrots. Forshaw’s fondness and respect for the species is evident in this reminiscence of a corella he encountered in the 1970s: “As a young man, in 1910, the grandfather had worked on the construction of the Australian railway system, and somewhere the Aboriginals had gifted him with this bird. Well, the corella had a repertoire of camp noises from the railway, pots and pans, brash talk — and he did all this in an Aboriginal dialect! Sixty years later! These birds have an amazing learning capacity”.