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"Frontal Shrike
Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [betwen 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 27.5 x 20.5 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 122

 
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Bird facing to the right, perched on a branch against a plain background. The bird has a black crested head with one white stripe from the top of the eye to the nape and another from the base of the bill to the side of the neck. It has a yellow breast and green back. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

 
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  • Port Jackson Painter"]
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at top centre "No. 1", and at bottom "Natural size Supposed to be the Male of No 2. It is a rare Bird never seen but in the Cold or Winter Months. It is found near water and often feeding on the seed of Reeds, in Marsh or Wet grounds".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at top right with the number "32.". 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 "Frontal Shrike Sup ii 75 pl. 122". This has been copied in ink at bottom "Frontal Shrike Latham Syn Supp ii p 75. pl 122". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Eastern Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing I. 49". 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 12122
  • 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).