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"Streaked Warbler"
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 16.8 x 14.5 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 272

 
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Bird facing right, seen from the back with its head in profile. It is depicted perched on a branch against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are painted in shades of brown overlaid with black hatched lines, with black striations on the back and wings, white markings on the top of the head, and a rust-red patche behind the eye. The underparts are off-white with black striations. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "Natural size. This Bird sings remarkably well".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "196.". 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 "Streaked Warbler Syn Sup. ii. 247". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "Streaked Warbler. Latham Syn Suppt 2 p. 247. Male.". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Speckled Warbler, Chthonicola sagittata in Hindwood K. A. (1970). (ITIS gives Chthonicola sagittatus as the preferred taxonomic name for the Speckled Warbler.)
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing II. 9.". 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.
  • 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 12272
  • 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).