First Fleet artwork collection

A bird, its body facing to the right and it head turned to the left, perched on a tree stump with some foliage at the base. The bird has a white head, an ochre breast flecked with dark brown markings, brown back and wings with black spots, and a pale brown tail with darker stripes. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is annotated in ink at mid left "Two thirds of the Natural size" and at bottom left "This Bird is not common in New South Wales, the only one ever shot though some others have been seen of the same kind."
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is annotated at top left in pencil "Pacific Falcon Syn Sup p 54". This has been copied in ink at mid-left, "Pacific Falcon Latham Syn. Suppt p 54". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird was described as "indeterminable" in Hindwood K. A (1970).
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top left "Lambert Drawing II 6". 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.
• 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 12106
• 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).