First Fleet artwork collection

Bird with body facing to the right and head turned to the left, perched on a branch that cuts diagonally across the drawing from the bottom right, against a plain background. The bird has a black head, white breast, blue grey back, and black tipped wings. The tail has a black band towards the bottom and a white tip. The drawing is framed by a pencil border and annotated in ink and pencil.

• Port Jackson Painter]
• The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "Natural size,".
• The drawing is unsigned and undated.
• The drawing is annotated in ink at top right with the number "28.". 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 "Robust shrike Syn Supp ii p 74". This has been copied in ink at bottom "Robust Shrike Latham Syn Suppt ii p 74". The page reference is to Latham's Second Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds (1802).
• This bird was more recently identified as the Little Cuckoo-shrike Coracina robusta in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing I. 52.". 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 12118
• 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).