First Fleet artwork collection

Bird in profile, facing to the left, perched on a tree branch with some leaves attached, against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are olive green overlaid with black hatched lines, and the wing and tail feathers are brown overlaid with black hatched lines with white highlights. The throat is white, the breast pale yellow, and the legs white striped with dark grey. 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", and at lower centre "Honey Eater".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "137.". 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 right "H.E.", and in ink at lower right "HE".
• This bird was more recently described as "indeterminable" in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
• 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 12215
• 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).