First Fleet artwork collection

Bird in profile, facing to the left, perched on a branch against a plain background. The bird has a green head, back, tail and wings, with a white bar across the shoulder, and a blue rump. The bill, throat, breast and belly are red, with green patches at the throat and beneath the tail. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "50.". 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 "Scarlet & green Parrot Var. or Young Male Non Des". It is annotated in ink at bottom centre "Scarlet and green Parrot Var or young Male".
• This bird was more recently identified as the King Parrot Aprosmictus scapularis (an immature male) in Hindwood K. A. (1970). ITIS gives Alisterus scapularis as the preferred name for the Australian King Parrot.
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing I 16.". 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 12135).
• 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).