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"Scarlet and Green Parrot", native name "Wellat"

Artist: Watling, Thomas
Created: [Between 1792 and 1797]
Dimensions: 21.7 x 20.1 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 134

 

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Bird facing to the left, perched on a branch against a plain background. The head and tail are quite erect. The bird has a red head, breast and belly, green wings, blue back and grey tail feathers. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

 

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  • Thomas Watling]
  • The drawing is annotated in faded brown ink at top centre in "No.2", and at bottom centre "Male of No 1 Half the Natural size. Native name Wellat." (See also Watling Drawing number 136.)
  • The drawing is signed at bottom centre "Thomas Watling. delt.", but is undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "49.". 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 left "Scarlet & green Parrot Male". This has been copied in ink at bottom right, "Scarlet and green Parrot. Male. Lathams MS". ("Lathams MS" refers to the catalogue list compiled by John Latham - see above.)
  • This bird was more recently identified as the King Parrot Aprosmictus scapularis in Hindwood K. A. (1970). ITIS gives Alisterus scapularis as the preferred name for the Australian King Parrot.
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top left "Lambert Drawing I. 31". 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 12134
  • 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).