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"Grey-headed Thrush"
Artist: Watling, Thomas
Created: [between 1792 and 1797]
Dimensions: 18.9 x 19.1 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 236

 
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  • Thomas Watling]
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "This is a Solitary Bird, It has a melodious Note not unlike the Thrush but does not Warble.".
  • The drawing is signed "Thomas Watling, delt", but is undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "157.". This refers to the catalogue list compiled by John Latham c. 1801 which was acquired with the drawings, and is filed with them at the end of the Watling Drawings series.
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Grey headed Thrush La MS". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "Grey headed Thrush Latham MS". "Latham MS" refers to the manuscript catalogue list compiled by John Latham (see note above).
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Grey Thrush Colluricincla harmonica in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing III. 33.". This refers to a related set of drawings from the collections of the 13th Earl of Derby, held in the Library at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire.
  • The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
  • By permission of the trustees of the Natural History Museum (London)
  • Two sets of transparencies held in the Natural History Museum (London) Zoology Library and Picture Library: Picture Library reference number 12236
  • James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
  • Data sheet available.
  • Hindwood K. A. 'The "Watling" drawings with incidental notes on the "Lambert" and the "Latham" drawings', Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for the years 1968-69 (1970).