First Fleet artwork collection

Bird facing to the right, seen from the back with its head in profile. It is perched on a branch against a plain background. The upper parts of the bird are predominantly yellow brown overlaid with black hatched lines, with black markings on the top of the head and orange - chestnut brown patches on the wings and tail. 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 inscribed in ink at top right with the number "181". 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 left "Rose-winged Flycatcher Sup 2. 222". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "Rose winged Flycatcher Latham Syn Suppt 2. p. 222.".
• This bird was more recently described as "indeterminable" in Hindwood K. A. (1970).
• The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Lambert Drawing II. 14". 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 12258
• 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).