First Fleet artwork collection

Bird in profile, facing to the right, perched on a branch with some leaves attached against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are brown heavily overlaid with black hatched lines. The underparts are yellow overlaid with black. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is annotated in ink at lower left "Natural size December".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "175.". 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 "Southern Flycatcher Syn Sup. 2. 219. var". This has been copied in ink at lower right "Southern Flycatcher Latham Syn Suppt = 2. p. 219. Variety". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird was more recently identified as the Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
• A separate label is attached to the mount alongside the drawing at lower right. It is inscribed in pencil "Type".
• 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 12253
• James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
• Data sheet available.
• Latham, John. Supplement II to the General Synopsis of Birds. London: Leigh, Sotheby, 1802.
• 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).