Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads 1860 during the Second Opium War, at which time the fountainheads were looted. They were originally made by an Italian Jesuit, Giuseppe Castiglione. In May 2015, Sean Parker paid US$4.4 million at Phillips for the small (gold) version of the 12-sculpture work by Ai Weiwei. In June 2015, a large (bronze) version sold at auction for $5.4 million. Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is an artwork by Chinese contemporary artist and political commentator, Ai Weiwei. The work comes in a small (gold) and large (bronze) version. Created in 2010, the zodiac heads (a Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit,
Letter-winged kite under its current binomial name "Elanus scriptus". The specific epithet is from the Latin word "scriptum" meaning "written" or "marked". Charles Sturt wrote of seeing them on his travels in his 1849 book "Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia". The letter-winged kite is monotypic; no subspecies are recognized, nor is there any recorded geographic variation. "Letter-winged kite" has been designated the official name by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC). In Central Australia, southwest of Alice Springs, the Pitjantjatjara term for the letter-winged kite is "nyanyitjira". It has been incorrectly called white-breasted sparrowhawk. Molecular evidence shows that the letter-winged kite