With his death ,the Caroline Parakeet, last spotted in the wild 8 years previously, ceased to be.
Incas was never photographed in life, in fact only one bird, a pet named Doodles is undoubtedly known to have been photographed and sadly the photograph is in black and white.
The bird had a wide range from New York to Colorado and was quite abundant in the early half of the 19th century, but its decline had already begun my the 1860s.
The usual suspects were the cause of extinction, namely humankind. Deforestation and hunting being the prime causes.
The card below is a postcard version of a print from John James Audubon's famous and beautiful "The Birds of America" which I've been lucky enough to see a copy of in Liverpool's Central Library.
Trivia
The bird had the most northerly range of any parrot.
They were thought to be poisonous as cats died after eating them.
They could live up to 35 years in captivity.
They are one of at least six extinct species of bird in Audubon's Birds of America.
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