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"Streaked Warbler"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 12.2 x 13 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 274

 

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Bird, its head in profile facing right and its body turned to the left. It is depicted perched on a branch with some foliage against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are predominantly yellow-brown overlaid with black hatched lines. The underparts are white-grey, with black striations. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

 

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  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Streaked Warbler, Chthonicola sagittata in Hindwood K. A. (1970). (ITIS gives Chthonicola sagittatus as the preferred taxonomic name for the Streaked Warbler.)
  • 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 12274
  • 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]
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Streaked Warbler female? Syn Sup. 2. 247". It is annotated in ink at top right with the number "198", at upper right "June", and at bottom right "Streaked Warbler Female. Latham Syn = = Suppt 2. p. 247. one half the Natural size."