First Fleet artwork collection

Bird, facing right and standing on a mound of earth, with a view of a distant landscape to the right of the mound. Otherwise the background is plain. The bird is white to grey, with brown eyes outlined in yellow. It has a yellow bill with a black tip. The picture is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Thomas Watling]
• The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "Native name Goo-loo-bee".
• The drawing is signed "Thomas Watling delt" at bottom right, but is undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "20.". 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 "Lacteous Eagle La MS - Non Descript". This has been copied in ink at bottom right, "Lacteous Eagle Lathams MS". ("Lathams MS" refers to the catalogue list compiled by John Latham - see above.)
• The bird was more recently identified as the Grey Goshawk, Accipiter novaehollandiae, 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 12111
• 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).