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Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/92
Title:: Muscovy Duck
Scope & Content:: Muscovy Duck ‘Cairina moschata’ Original inscriptions: ‘From China. Female. Anas musolata. Moscovy Duck’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: A domesticated version
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/93
Title:: Muscovy Duck
Scope & Content:: Muscovy Duck ‘Cairina moschata’ Original inscriptions: ‘Male of ye last’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: A domesticated version
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/94
Title:: Superb Lyrebird
Scope & Content:: Superb Lyrebird ‘Manura novaehollandae’ Original inscriptions: ‘Menura N. Hollandiae. I. O. Sup. 2 x 1.’ ‘This Bird and the female are done from very good shipped specimens brought from Botany Bay. The tail consists of 16 feathers which are here well represented. They are in length about 24 ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/95
Title:: Superb Lyrebird
Scope & Content:: Superb Lyrebird ‘Manura novaehollandae’ Original inscriptions: ‘Female of ye last’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Female
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/96
Title:: Superb Lyrebird
Scope & Content:: Superb Lyrebird ‘Manura novaehollandae’ Original inscriptions: Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Male
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/97
Title:: Manucode
Scope & Content:: Manucode Genus ‘Manucodia’ Original inscriptions: ‘Parad. Chalybea. I. O. i. 197? Blue-green Parad: Bird. Syn. ij. 482.’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Possibly either a Crinkle-collared Manucode, ‘Manucodia chalybatus’, or a Jobi Manucode, ‘Manucodia jobien...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/98
Title:: Bird of Paradise (possibly)
Scope & Content:: Bird of Paradise (possibly) Original inscriptions: ‘If not a different species. Like smaller Parad. Bird. Syn. ij. 74?’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Depiction of a dead bird, as yet unidentified. Perhaps a Golden Bowerbird rather than a Bird of Paradise?
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/99
Title:: Magnificent Bird of Paradise
Scope & Content:: Magnificent Bird of Paradise ‘Diphyllodes magnificus’ Original inscriptions: ‘See B. iv. 94. One upper View and two under ones with the Light in Different directions. See Lath. 2-477’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Three views of a dead Magnificent Bird of P...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD29/100
Title:: Rhinoceros Hornbill
Scope & Content:: Rhinoceros Hornbill ‘Buceros rhinoceros’ Original inscriptions: ‘Rhinoceros Hornbill’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Only the head of (dead) Hornbill is portrayed
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: NHD30/1
Title:: Imperial Eagle (possibly)
Scope & Content:: Imperial Eagle (possibly) ‘Aquila heliaca’ Original inscriptions: ‘If not related to Falco melanonotos I. O. 1. 16. Black-backed Eagle Syn. i. 42?’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note:
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1798-1805
Extent:: 1 Item

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