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"Bearded Thrush"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 16.4 x 17.4 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 235

 

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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is annotated in ink at lower left "Natural size December".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The drawing is inscribed in ink at top right with the number "156.". 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 "Bearded Thrush La MS". This has been copied in ink at lower right "Bearded Thrush Latham MS". "Latham MS" refers to the catalogue list compiled by John Latham (see note above).
  • This bird was more recently identified as the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater, Meliphaga melanops, in Hindwood K. A. (1970). (ITIS gives Lichenostomus melanops as the preferred taxonomic name for the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater.)
  • The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing II. 10". 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 12235
  • 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).