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Sulphur-crested cockatoo who lived at various hotels around Sydney for decades after his first owner, Captain George Ellis, died. It was reputed to be 119 years old when it died in 1916. According to various newspaper stories published in 1912, the bird's name was actually Paddy. Captain Ellis had been given the bird in 1809 by the cook of the ship he had first served on as a nine year old boy and it was with him till he died in 1887 in the Solomon Islands. Sir Henry Rawson, the Governor of New South Wales, was just one of his admirers and a frequent visitor.
