Suburbia can be pitiless and today we have to report the sad news of the violent death in Narrabundah of the most famous of our city's suburban peahens. The all-white bird was last mentioned in this peacock-appreciative column (with this photograph) in March.
Meanwhile, in happier news, as Canberra loses one famous fowl it gains another in the form of a painted portrait of Robert, a kind of Phar Lap of poultry, just acquired by the National Museum of Australia. More of the immortalised Robert in a moment.
But for now, back to the deceased peahen. ''This morning peering out the window,'' our distressed Narrabundah correspondent reports, ''we discovered to our horror that the famous white Narrabundah peacock - attracting special attention in the neighbourhood because of its rarity - was lying [mangled] on our lawn.''
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