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Hell-branded cowtown / M. Ford.

ALBUMS
PXE 1521/Box 1
Photographs of steamships, ferries, paddle steamers and tugboats. 

PXE 1521/Box 2
Photographs (and newscuttings) of birds, nests, bushmen and their huts near Maryborough, Victoria, 1912-1915; and journeys on the Murray River in 1913 and  to Mallacoota Inlet and East Gippsland in 1914. 

PXA 1772/Box 1
1. Photographs of the R.A.O.U. (Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union) trip along the River Murray, South Australia, November- December 1913.
2. Photographs of birds, scenes, huts & people. Album is inscribed 'Maggie Chisholm'.
3. Photographs of Deirdre Chisholm as a baby.

PHOTOGRAPHS
PXA 1772/Box 2
Old Family Photos, ca. 1876 - ca. 1925. Include Chisholm's grandparents; his parents Colin Chisholm and Charlotte nee Kennedy; Duncan Chisholm; Alec Chisholm; Margaret Chisholm; Roderick Chisholm; Colin Chisholm.
"Old Photos (unidentified).

PXA 1772/Box 3
Portraits of Alec Chisholm

PXA 1772/Box 4
Portraits of Deirdre Chisholm

PXA 1772/Box 5 & PXA 1772/Box 6
"Personalities". Include Frank Hurley, E.V. Timms, Ion Idriess, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1921), Julian Huxley (1955), Neville H.P. Cayley, N.W. Cayley, Joyce Grenfell, Sir Philip Game, Lord Alanbrooke, Luigi Nobili, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester (1945), With the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester in New Guinea & Bougainville (1945)

PXA 1772/Box 7
Lyrebirds

PXA 1772/Box 8
Warblers
Robins
Fairy Wrens
Emus, Bustards

PXA 1772/Box 9 
Parrots
Waders
Heath & Tree Wrens
Thrushes
Crows, Magpies, Butcherbirds, Currawongs & Kookaburras
Finches & Wasps

PXA 1772/Box 10
Honeyeaters
Bowerbirds
Cuckoo Shrikes, Trillers, Oriole
Scrub & Grass Wrens, Blue Wrens, Chats
Scrub Robins
Speckled Warbler, Logrunner, Whipbird
Pigeons & Doves
Nightjars, Owls, Frogmouths

PXA 1772/Box 11
Eagles & Hawks
Whistlers
Shrike Tit, Sittella
Atrichorns
Mound Builders
Sea Birds
Thornbills, Scrub Tit, Pardolotes, Weebill, Whiteface
Crested Bellbird, Bell-Miner
Mudlark, Chough, Apostlebird, Bibbler
Mallee Fowl

PXA 1772/Box 12
Gannets
Gannets (Cat Is., Black Pyramid Rock / R. Fowler, 1938)
Frigma
Kingfishers, Merops, Swallows, Tree Creepers, Swiftlet, Reed Warbler, Larks
Flycatchers

PXA 1772/Box 13
Finches
Fantails
Tailorbirds
Mistletoebirds
Cisticola

PXA 1772/Box 14
"Birds (general)" - mostly unidentified

PXA 1772/Box 15
Orchids and other flowers

PXA 1772/Box 16
Mammals
Lizards
Spiders

PXA 1772/Box 17
Trees (general)
Angophoras

PXA 1772/Box 18
Historic Trees & Memorials. Include Leichhardt Tree, Taroon; Tree marking Union Strike Camp, Hughenden, 1891; The Corroboree Tree in Richmond Park, Burnley; Hume & Hovell Tree, Albury; The Dig Tree (Burke & Wills); The Depot Tree, Camp 65 (Burke & Wills); Foundation Tree, Adelaide; Explorers' Marked Tree, Blue Mountains; Kelly-Police Memorial, Mansfield; Grave of Yuranigh, Molong; Gold Memorial, Maryborough; E.J. Banfield's Grave.
Tree Climbing.
Aboriginal Australians, rock carvings and carved trees.
Chinese.
Bush Huts & other rural buildings.

PXA 1772/Box 19
Maryborough Photos, ca. 1900-1914. Include Chisholm's High School Class of 1914; Temperance Football Club, Premiers 1911.
Mallacoota and Murray River, 1912-1914, undated.

PXA 1772/Box 20
Jamieson and Goulburn Rivers.
Portland.
Victoria - general.

PXA 1772/Box 21
Queensland. Includes Lamington National Park; Blackall, 1888; Bunya Mountains; Macpherson Range; Fraser Island; Dunk Island; Stradbroke Island.
"WarRon" and Ruined Castle Valley; Condamine River; Cave of the Hands and Reedy Creek.

PXA 1772/Box 22
Broken Hill.
Western NSW.
NSW - general. Includes Blue Mountains; Cabbage Tree Island (Port Stephens); Middle Harbour (Sydney.
1932 pageant to celebrate opening of Harbour Bridge.

V/284
The Banfield House, Dunk Island, 1921.

MPG 217
Group of people listening to a talk by Alec Chisholm[?].

SV/288
Princess Alexandra with a koala.

PXA 1772/Box 23
Three photographs of Papua New Guinea, 1940s: Japanese Cemetery at Lae;  small section of graveyard of planes, near Port Moresby; aerial view of Port Moresby.
Photographs for 'Strange new world; the adventures of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt' by Alec H. Chisholm, 1941.
Originals and proofs for 'The incredible year : a naturalist sees Europe in "Adolf Hitler" weather' by Alec H. Chisholm, 1944.

PXA 1772/Box 24
Scotland, 1938 (photos by AHC)
England, 1938 (photos by AHC)
Photos abroad, 1938. Include Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Malta, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Holland, Versailles.

COPYPRINTS (taken from nitrate negatives)
PXA 1772/ Box 25  
Kent, Sussex, Surrey 
Oxford- Selbourne 
Wiltshire and Hampshire
Somerset and Dorset
London and England  
South Scotland
Bass Rock
Inverness & Perthshire, Scotland 
Far North Scotland
Roman ruins

PXA 1772/Box 26
Shipboard
Holland and France
Naples & Pompeii
Aden, Port Said
Columbo 
New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Mt Buffalo under snow - & Barrowmen (20)
Figures in Victorian Bush (15)
Maryborough scenes, old huts etc
Eden (old church etc.), Macpherson Range
"WanRon"[?], Reedy Creek, Ruined Castle

PXA 1772/Box 27  
Goulburn and Jamieson Rivers
Queanbeyan Flood, 1928 (?)
Port Stephens & Myall River, Phillip Island, Riverina, Hindwood & McGillivray
Ruined Castle Valley, Palm Tree Creek
Lambing Flat
Portland
Scenic & General
Angophoras, Mr Chisholm
Angophoras & Casuarinas
Tree climbing

PXA 1772/Box 28
Birds and Flowers
Birds (general)
Trees (general) & Toothbill
Helmeted Honeyeater
Lyrebirds
Golden Bowerbird
Finch - Immelmann
Birds Nests
"WarRon"[?], Bowers etc.

PXA 1772/Box 29
Mammals
Wombats
Koalas, Quail Island
Fossickers & Chinese
Dierdre, see also Lyrebirds (Springwood)
2/5/74 Deirdre
Deirdre & "The Bri" & old hut
Deirdre
Chisholm & George Mackaness at Camp Cove; First Fleeters; Mary Bryant's Tea Leaves
Alec Chisholm, mother - sisters - home
Childhood

PXA 1772/Box 30
Personalities. 
Sir Philip Game probably Bigelow
Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) in Queensland, 1920
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, 1945
Sir Charles Symonds at Dee Why
Graves & Memorials including Owen Stanley & James Ruse
Matthews & Gould also Knight & Alexander
Historic Buildings file.

PXA 1772/31
Unidentified. Include aeroplanes, trees, birds, memorials, country scenes, people, bush huts, houses, towns, churches.

LANTERN SLIDES (black & white and colour) 
SLIDES 269/Box 1
Include Alexander Harris, Ursula Carr, Aboriginal people, birds, bush huts, animals, orchids, trees, aerial views of Sydney, 1933-1937.

SLIDES 269/Boxes 2-6 
Mostly unidentified. Include Aboriginal Australians, birds, bush huts, animals, orchids, flowers, trees, James the Lyrebird, ca. 1935, Dunk & Fraser Islands, Australian scenes and people.

GLASS NEGATIVES
ON 544
Box 1. Bowerbirds
Boxes 2 & 3. Lyrebirds
Boxes 4 & 5. Mallee
Boxes 6 & 7. Robins
Box 8. Robins & Jungle Birds
Box 9. Sea birds
Box 10. Cisticola, Dicaeum, Shriketit
Box 11. Cuckoos
Box 12. Wrens
Box 13. Finch (wasps)
Box 14. Dunk Island Birds
Box 15. Fantails and Flycatchers
Box 16. Gannets
Box 17. Negatives by D.W.  Gaukrodger
Box 18. Honeyeaters
Box 19. Kingfisher, Tits, Chats, Song Lark, Kestrel, Brolga, Turkey, Treecreeper, Frogmaouth and other birds 
Boxes 20-24. Birds in general
Boxes 25-26. Orchids
Box 27. Wildflowers
Box 28. Trees
Box 29. Scenes & People in Queensland
Boxes 30-31. Scenes in Queensland
Box 32. Children in Queensland
Boxes 33-34. Dunk Island
Box 35. Fraser Island
Box 36. Bunya mountains
Boxes 37-38. Macpherson Range
Box 39. Scenes  & Persons in NSW. Also mammals
Box 40. Scenes & Persons in Victoria including Deirdre climbing
Box 41. Children in Victoria
Box 42. Murray River, Nov.-Dec. 1913
Box 43. Mallacoota, 1914
Box 44. Strange New world and Goulds
Box 45. Old men and huts
Box 46. Deirdre in Sydney during babyhood - Melbourne from 1933
Box 47. C.J. Dennis
Box 48. J.R. Marshall plates
Box 49. Ramsay
Boxes 50-52. Untitled

FILM NEGATIVES
ON 545
Include Portrait of John Gould; paradise parrot; nightjars; lyrebirds; town plan of Menindee; Henry Coxen; Alec Chisholm; birds; Selbourne Window; documents relating to George Robertson.

DRAWINGS & PRINT
PXE 1521/Box 3
1. Portrait of Alec Chisholm, pencil / by SMB[?].
2. Two birds and nest (possibly red-backed fairy-wrens), ink and watercolur / by Cayley.
3. Yellow-winged satin-bird[?], watercolour / artist unknown.
4. Yellow-winged satin-bird, print / from a drawing by G.J. Broinowski.
5. Portrait of Alec Chisholm surrounded by Australian animals and birds, watercolour / by Betty Paterson.
6. Address to Alex Chisholm Esq on his departure for Europe, 1938. Includes photograph and caricature in ink of Chisholm and drawings of Australian animals and birds.

SV/286
Cartoon, 'U.A.P. majority - Where did that one go?', ink / by Will Mahony

REALIA
R 2098
Item 1. Australian Natural History Award. Metal plaque in presentation case. Obverse, an Australian Aborigine seated before a fire beneath a carved tree; Reverse, "For special study / and / increasing knowledge / and appreciation of / Australian fauna and flora / awarded to / Alexander Hugh Chisholm / year 1939 (Initial Award)".
Item 2. Metal plaque mounted on wooden stand. Inscribed on plaque, "Australias  / 175th / Anniversary / 1788-1963 / NSW Celebrations". Inscribed on stand, "Mr A.H. Chisholm O.B.E., F.R.Z.S. / General Secretary / Royal Australian Historical Society / Australia Day, 26th January 1963".
Item 3. Enameled metal badge showing a bird and the initials "C.F.N.C." (Castlemaine Field Naturalist Club).
Item 4. Enameled metal badge showing a bird and inscribed "Bird Observers Club / Life Member".
Item 5. Badge inscribed "F.N.C.V. / A.H. Chisholm. Hon. Editor". (Field Naturalists Club of Victoria).
Item 6. Metal badge inscribed "A.H. Chisholm / From / the Queensland / Naturalists Club / 1922".
Item 7. Metal badge with a photographic portrait of Alec Chisolm aged about 11.
Item 8. Gold propelling pencil inscribed 'A.H. Chisholm 13.9.37'.

Forms part of Alec H. (Alec Hugh) Chisholm - papers, ca.1870-1976, at MLMSS 3540 ADD-ON 1542

Alec H. Chisholm photographs, lantern slides, glass negatives, drawings and realia, ca. 1860-1976

"Drawings of Birds chiefly from Australia, A Collection / of 101 BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED DRAWINGS with description, / in pencil mounted in a vol. and bound in hf. morocco / imp.fol" -- printed clipping pasted onto reverse of front endpaper. 

The sketches are titled, most with added notes giving the month bird was sighted and its size. Two drawings are dated: f.4 "June 1792" and f.81 "December 1791".

1. Falco. [at lower left in different hand] August natural size. [Black-Shouldered Kite] [Elanus axillaris] [Elanus notatus]
2. [Plate 2 not located when volume transferred to Mitchell Library, August 1929]
3. Turdus. [below title in different hand] August natural size. [Ground Thrush] [Zoothera lunulata]
4. Turdus. [in a different hand] Drawn the natural size being the only two of the kind as yet seen on the Colony - June 1792 [Spotted Quail Thrush] [Cinclosoma punctatum]
5. Oriolus mimetis. [above title in different hand] Natural size. July - iris doubtfull [Olive-Backed Oriole] [Oriolus sagittatus]
6. Barita. [above title in different hand] May. Natural size [Black-Backed Magpie] [Gymnorhina tibicen]
7. Barita. [following title in different hand] 1/2 the natural size. [another note in a third hand, reads] This bird has a very uncommon and not unpleasant note. [Black-Backed Magpie] [Gymnorhina tibicen]
8. Coraciae. [along lower edge in different hand] October. Reduced to half the size of the Bird the Drawing was taken from [Dollar-Bird] [Eurystomus orientalis]
9. Vanga. [at upper left in different hand] July - natural size [Grey Butcher-Bird] [Cractius torquatus female]
10. Vanga. [at lower centre in different hand] Natural size - iris doubtfull [Grey Butcher-Bird] [Cracticus torquatis male]
11. Lanius. [above title in different hand] October. Natural size [Crested Shrike-Tit] [Falcunculus frontatus]
12. Ocypterus. [above title in different hand] April - natural size [Dusky Wood-Swallow] [Artamus cyanopterus]
13. Ocypterus. [above title in different hand] December. Natural size [White-Browed Wood Swallow] [Artamus superciliosus, male]
14. Ceblephyris. [above title in different hand] August. Natural size [Little Cuckoo-Shrike?] [Coracina robusta]
15. Ceblephyris. [above title in different hand] the natural size [Grey Currawong] [Strepera versicolor]
16. Ceblephyris [along lower edge in different hand] The same size as the Bird the drawing was taken from. April [Grey Shrike Thrush] [Colluricincla harmonica]
17. Pardalotus. [along upper edge in different hand ] August. Both drawn natural size. [added in third hand] & supposed to be of a different kind [Spotted Pardalote and Eastern Striated Pardalote] [Pardalotus punctatus and Pardalotus striatus] [Pardalotus ornatus]
18. Natural size [Golden Whistler] [Pachycephala pectoralis, male]
19. April. Natural size [Golden Whistler] [Pachycephala pectoralis, male]
20. Natural size. April [Golden Whistler] [Pachycephala pectoralis, male]
21. Musciopa. [above title in different hand] June. Natural size [Restless Flycatcher] [Myragra inquieta] [Seisura inquieta]
22. November - natural size [White-Winged Triller] [Lalage sueurii, male]
23. May - natural size - iris & tongue doubtfull [Brown Tree-Creeper] [Climacterus picumnus]
24. Natural size [Scarlet Robin] [Petroica multicolor, male, Norfolk Island]
25. Car,ral,gar,yei,sar - natural size [Scarlet Robin, male] [Petroica multicolor, N.S.W.]
26. Two birds of Norfolk Island (natural size) [Scarlet Robin]
27. May. Natural size [Hooded Robin, female] [Melanodryas cucullata] 
28. Natural size - July [Willie Wagtail] [Rhipidura leucophrys]
29. Blackbird [Norfolk Island Blackbird?] [Aplonis fuscus, male]
30. ...? [Norfolk Island Blackbird?] [Aplonis fuscus, female]
31. ...? [Slender-Billed White-Eye] [Zosterops tenuirostris] 
32. [unidentified] July - natural size. For notes concerning attempts to identify this bird see Hindwood, K. A. The Sydney bird paintings in the Australian Zoologist, v.XIII, part 2, August, 1965, p. 86 (ML ref. Q590.5/A) 
33. Natural size [Red-Backed Wren] [Malurus melanocephalu,male]
34. Mo,ro,dru,ing - male and female - natural size [Superb Blue Wren] [Malarus cyaneus]
35. Natural size [Emu-Wren, male] [Stipiturus malachurus]
36. September. Natural size [Yellow Thornbill] [Acanthiza nana]
37. October. Natural size [Yellow Thornbill] [Acanthiza nana]
38. Alundu? [above title in different hand] Natural size - July [Pipit] [Anthus australis]
39. Fringilla. [along lower edge in different hand] July - natural size. [T]he notes of this bird are equal if not superior to the En[g]lish Linnet [Speckled Warbler] [Chthonicola sagittata]
40. Fringilla. Natural size [Red-Browed Finch] [Neochmia temporalis] [Aegintha temporalis]
41. Fringilla. [above title in different hand] June. Natural size. Iris doubtfull [Diamond Firetail] [Stagonopleura guttata, immature]
42. Fringilla. [at lower centre in different hand] Natural size [Diamond Firetail] [Stagonopleura guttata]
43. Fringilla. [below title in different hand] February. Natural size [Diamond Firetail] [Stagonopleura guttata]
44. Cuculus. [above title, in different hand] Natural size. [at upper left corner in third hand] B [and at lower left] Goes with A [ie. f.45] [Fan-Tailed Cuckoo] [Cacomantis pyrrhophanus, male]
45. Natural size. [at upper right in different hand] A [at lower left] Goes with B [i.e. f.44] [Fan-Tailed Cuckoo] [Cacomantis pyrrhophanus]
46. Cuculus. [along lower edge in different hand] These birds drawn natural size. [The upper two birds are Golden Bronze Cuckoos, the third is a Rufous Whistler] [Lamprococcyx plagosus] [Chrysococcyx lucidis]
47. Centropus. [at lower centre in different hand] This bird is about the size of the English Pheasant. Drawn 1/3 of the natl. size. [Pheasant Coucal] [Centropus phasianinus]
48. Black Cockatoo. [at lower left in different hand] Reduced by scale to 1/3 the natural size. [Glossy Black Cockatoo] [Calyptorhynchus lathami, female]
49. War,ran. [at lower centre in different hand] Natural size. [Turquoise Parrot] [Neophema pulchella, male]
50. This is a ground parrot & never goes to a tree or very seldom. [at lower centre in different hand] Natl. size. [Ground Parrot] [Pezoporus wallicus]
51. Natural size [Little Lorikeet] [Glossopsitta pusilla]
52. Natural size [Musk Lorikeet] [Glossopsitta concinna]
53. Corella. Natural size [Eastern Rosella] [Platycercus eximius]
54. Drepanis. [below title in different hand] September. Natural size [at lower right in third hand] These birds are supposed to be birds of passage & appear in flocks, the red does not show the beauty of the bird. [Scarlet Honeyeater] [Myzomela sanguinolenta]
55.Wer,gan or the Friar. [at lower left in a different hand] Meliphaga Phrygia. [at lower centre in a third hand] Natural size [Noisy Friarbird] [Philemon corniculatus]
56. Melephahu Cyanops. [above the title in a different hand] Natural size. The outer & middle toe are connected to the first joint. No feathers grow upon the part of the head which is blue (and of the finest ultramarine) [Blue-faced Honeyeater] [Entomyzon cyanotis]
57. January. Natural size - supposed to be a young bird [Noisy Friarbird] [Philemon corniculatus]
58. Octr. Natural size - the feathers of the neck head breast & back are all pointed [Brush Wattle-Bird] [Anthochaera chrysoptera]
59. Natural size - the feathers of the head neck & breast are pointed [Brush Wattle-Bird] [Anthochaera chrysoptera]
60. June. Reduced by scale to half the natural size [Red Wattle-Bird] [Anthochaera carunculata]
61. January. Natural size [Yellow Winged Honeyeater] [Meliornis novae-hollandiae]
62. June. Natural size [Noisy Miner] [Myzantha melanocephala]
63. May. Natural size [Tawny Crowned Honeyeater] [Phylidonyris melanops]
64. Natural size. Iris doubtfull. Iris supposed to be straw colour [Brown Tree-Creeper] [Climacteris picumnus]
65. May - natural size [Yellow Winged Honeyeater] [Meliornis novae-hollandiae]
66. August. Natural size [Grey-Backed Silvereye] [Zosterops lateralis]
67. Natural size - June [White-Cheeked Honeyeater] [Phylidonyris nigra]
68. Natural size - August [Lewin Honeyeater] [Meliphaga Lewinii]
69. Natural size. Iris doubtfull [Yellow-Tufted Honeyeater] [Lichenostomus melanops]
70. Natural size. August [Fuscous Honeyeater] [Lichenostomus fuscus]
71. 1-2. Meliphaga. 3. -? [at lower centre in different hand] Natural size. [Three birds are shown: 1. White-Naped Honeyeater (Melithreptus lunatus); 2. Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis); 3. Eastern Spinebill (Acanathorhynchus tenuirostris)] 
72. 1. Meliphaga. 2. Muscicapa. Natural size. Iris of both doubtfull. [Bell Miner] [Manorina melanophrys and Rhipidura rufifrons]
73. Merops. [above title in different hand] November. Natural size [Rainbow Bird] [Merops ornatus]
74. Ter,re,a,mar or King Fisher. [at lower left in different hand] Alcedo. [at lower centre in third hand] Natural size [Azure Kingfisher] [Alyone azurea]
75. Dacelo. [along lower edge in different hand] Natural size. The outer & middle toe are connected to the second joint, the middle and inner to the first. [Laughing Jackass] [Dacelo gigas]
76. Hirundo. [at lower centre in different hand] January Natural size [Welcome Swallow] [Hirundo neoxena]
77. Hirundo. [above title in different hand] March. Natural Size. [at lower right in third hand] The Swallow or Martin of N.S. Wales. [Welcome Swallow] [Hirundo neoxena]
78. Caprimulgus. [at lower centre in different hand] 1/2 the natural size [Tawny Frogmouth] [Podargus strigoides]
79. A young Musquito Hawk - natural size [Owlet Nightjar] [Aegotheles cristatus]
80. Columba. [above title in different hand] May. Natural size [Diamond Dove] [Geopelia cuneata]
81. Wunga-Wungee Pigeon. Drawn by scale 1/2 the natural size. Two of these Pidgeons were now seen for the first time December 1791. ... similar to ... [Wonga Pigeon] [Leucosarcia melanoleuca]
82. Bronze Wing. [at lower centre in different hand] Natural size [Common Bronzewing Pigeon] [Phaps chalcoptera]
83. Bronze Winged Pigeon. [at lower centre in different hand] Natural size [Brush Bronzewing Pigeon] [Phaps elegans]
84. Pidgeon of Norfolk Island drawn by scale 1/2 the natural size. Iris doubtfull [Norfolk Island Pigeon] [Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae spadicea]
85. Oedicnemus. [at lower centre in different hand] 1/2 the natural size [Southern Stone-Curlew] [Burhinus magnirostris]
86. A Night Bird. Oedicnemus. [along lower edge in different hand] This bird measured from the tip of the bill to the extry. of the midl. toe 30 inches [Southern Stone-Curlew] [Burhinus magnirostris]
87. Hematopus. [at lower right in different hand] September. [along lower edge in third hand] The male & female are always seen together on the rocks & low points but have entirely left the Harbour from being frequently disturbed, the iris is very bright. [above sketch at right] natural size of the toe [Pied Oyster-Catcher] [Haematopus Longirostris]
88. Charadrius. [below frame line in different hand] This bird runs on the ground like the Sand Lark and is very common on the sands in the different parts of the harbour. [below this in third hand] Natural size [Red-capped Dotterel] [Charadrius alexandrinus, female]
89. Ardea [..?..] [Nankeen Night-Heron] [Nycticorax caledonicus]
90. Ardea. [along lower edge in different hand] The size of the bird the drawing was taken from, who could extend its neck four inches in leng[th] [Little Bittern] [Ixobrychus minutus]
91. Ciconia. [above title in different hand] December - iris doubtfull [White-Necked Heron] [Ardea pacifica] [Notophoyx pacifica]
92. Scolopax. [above title in different hand] December. Natural size - iris doubtfull [Japanese Snipe] [Gallinago hardwicki]
93. Rallus. [above title in different hand] August. Natural size [Marsh Crake] [Porzana pusilla]
94. Porphyrio. [along lower edge in different hand] Reduced to 1/2 the bird the drawing was taken from. August [Eastern Swamp Hen] [Porphyrio porphyrio] [Porphyrio melanotus]
95. Podicepha. [along lower edge in different hand] September. Natural size of the bird, the feathers are of a very fine texture particularly those on the breast which have a shining silky appearance, seldom flies more than 50 or 60 yards. The wing has three joints, like most tropical birds [Little Grebe] [Podiceps ruficollis]
96. Bird of Norfolk Island (natural size). [at lower left in different hand] Procellana [Norfolk Island Dove Petrel] 
97. Bird of Norfolk Island commonly called the mutton bird - drawn natural size [Wedge-Tailed Shearwater] [Puffinis Pacificus]
98. Anas. [along upper edge in different hand] This bird is about the size of a goose. [Below is] an outline of the foot drawn the natural size [Pied Goose] [Anseranas semipalmata]
99. Phaeton. [in different hand] A young Tropic Bird 1/2 of the natural size [Red-Tailed Tropicbird] [Phaethon rubricauda]
100. Phaeton [Red-Tailed Tropicbird] [Phaethon rubricauda]
101. The Tropic Bird of[?] Alma do Comtre-Mastre[?]. From tip of the bill to the rump 18 Inches, from the rump to the end of the tail 18 inches - from the extremity of the wings 4 feet 2 inches. The whole bird is cover'd with a bloom wch. is not shown in this drawing by the rays of the sun [Red-Tailed Tropicbird] [Phaethon rubricandus]

Tag found in the back of the volume inscribed: "Profssr. H.T. Lovell", and on reverse "... ofs. H.T. Lovell / House Shell Cove / Neutral Bay"

1. Falco. [at lower left in different hand] August natural size. [Black-Shouldered Kite] [Elanus axillaris] [Elanus notatus]

3. Turdus. [below title in different hand] August natural size. [Ground Thrush] [Zoothera lunulata]

4. Turdus. [in a different hand] Drawn the natural size being the only two of the kind as yet seen on the Colony - June 1792 [Spotted Quail Thrush] [Cinclosoma punctatum]

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Collection 27: Drawings of birds chiefly from Australia, 1791-1792

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