First Fleet artwork collection

Bird, its body leaning forwards and to the left, its head turned in profile to the right. It is perched on a branch and set against a plain background. The bird has a red bill. Its upper parts are brown - yellow overlaid with black hatched lines, with a red patch on its rump. Its underparts are grey - white. 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 "Natural Size Native name Deroo-gnan".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "168.". 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 "Temporal Finch Variety? Sup 2 p 211". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "Temporal Finch Latham Syn Suppt 2. p. 211.". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird was more recently identified as the Red-browed Finch Aegintha temporalis in Hindwood K. A. (1970). (ITIS gives Neochmia temporalis as the preferred taxonomic name for the Red-browed Finch.)
• 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 12247
• 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).