First Fleet artwork collection

Bird in profile, facing to the right. It is depicted perched on a tree stump with some vegetation, which is set on a green base with stylised tufts of grass, against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are brown overlaid with black hatched lines and black markings on the wing. The underparts are white - grey with black striations on the throat and breast. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom right "The Natural Size March".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "197.". 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 female? Syn Sup. 2. 247.". "Streaked Warbler Latham Syn Suppt 2. p. 247. Female.". 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 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 12273
• 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).