First Fleet artwork collection

Bird in profile, facing to the right. It is depicted perching on a tree set on a green - pale brown base against a plain background. The bird's crown and wing are black with white spots, and there is a grey area around the eye and side of the neck. The back is brown overlaid with black detail, and a red rump. The underparts are predominantly yellow. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "211.". 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 "Speckled Manakin Male Sup 2. 253 No 4". This has been copied in ink at bottom "Speckled Manakin Latham Syn Suppt 2 p. 253. Male. No 4". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird was more recently identified as the Spotted Pardalote, Pardalotus punctatus, in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing II. 23". 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 12286
• 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).
• Port Jackson Painter]