Irenaeus Fable 75: Psittacus et Turtur

I've embarked on a new Latin fable project here at the Latin Via Fables blog: digitizing the 300 fables in the Mithologica sacro-profana, seu florilegium fabularum by P. Irenaeus, published in 1666, which has recently become available at GoogleBooks. For a complete index of the fables in the book, with links to the fables I've digitized so far, check out the Aesopus wiki page at Aesopus.PBwiki.com.

Today's fable is Psittacus et Turtur, the story of an exotic parrot - exotic, that is, once he is taken away from his home and into another country. The fable does not appear in Perry; is anybody familiar with this story from another source?

To make reading the fable easier, I've provided a segmented version of the story below.

Psittacus, captus in partibus Orientis, et in occidentem delatus, videns se cum tanta accuratione deportari, ali, servari, et tanto pretio venire, mirabatur quid esset, quod extra patriam tam curiose aleretur et tanti fieret, qui in natali solo tam pauci esset. Stabat de vicino in alia cavea Turtur, quae Psittaco, talia garrienti, respondit, Non est (inquit) cur tantopere mireris, o frater, ita enim usu venit, inter homines, ut quivis extra patriam quam intra, experiatur magis propitiam fortunam. Alienigenae melius habentur, quam indigenae.

Psittacus,
captus in partibus Orientis,
et in occidentem delatus,
videns
se
cum tanta accuratione
deportari, ali, servari,
et tanto pretio venire,
mirabatur quid esset,
quod extra patriam
tam curiose aleretur
et tanti fieret,
qui in natali solo
tam pauci esset.
Stabat de vicino
in alia cavea
Turtur, quae
Psittaco, talia garrienti,
respondit,
Non est (inquit)
cur tantopere mireris,
o frater,
ita enim usu venit,
inter homines,
ut quivis extra patriam
quam intra,
experiatur
magis propitiam fortunam.
Alienigenae melius habentur,
quam indigenae.

Here's an illustration for the fable (image source) from Wikipedia:

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