Blue-Eared Barbet ‘Megalaima australis’ Original inscriptions: ‘Bucco No 4 - Tem:- Megalaima trimaculata. Gray.’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 274 by 384 mm Note:
Plaintive Cuckoo (possibly) ‘Cacomantis merulinus’ Original inscriptions: ‘Cuculus flavus Gmelin’ [Pencil] Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 156 by 247 mm Note: This is probably meant to be the male Plaintive Cuckoo but the tail and wings have a rufous tint and barri...
Gould’s Bronze Cuckoo ‘Chrysococcyx russatus’ Original inscriptions: ‘Cuculus malayanus. Raffles’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 263 by 382 mm Note: Very similar to Little Bronze Cuckoo, but the bird in image has more bronze than green, hence identified as Gould...
Greater Coucal ‘Centropus sinensis’ Original inscriptions: ‘Centropus eurycercus Hay - bubutus. Raffles (see Horsf.)’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 310 by 495 mm Note: Male
Chestnut-Breasted Malkoha ‘Phaenicophaeus curvirostris microrhinus’ Original inscriptions: ‘Phaenicophaeus curvirostris. Shaw / C. melanognathus apud Raffles’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 475 by 292 mm Note:
Chestnut-Bellied Malkoha ‘Phaenicophaeus sumatranus’ Original inscriptions: ‘Lauclostomus Sumatranus. Raffles’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 424 by 302 mm Note:
Laced Woodpecker, male (possibly) ‘Picus vittatus’ Original inscriptions: ‘Picus affinis Raffles’ [Ink] ‘Tukki bawang’ [Malay] Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 380 by 265 mm Note: Not finished, the eye is left undone. Red-stained Woodpecker is ‘veniliornis affinis’.
Laced Woodpecker, female (possibly) ‘Picus vittatus’ Original inscriptions: ‘Picus affinis. Raffles’ [Ink] ‘Tukki bawang’ [Malay] Further inscriptions: Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: 365 by 255 mm Note: Not finished, the eye is left undone. Red-stained Woodpec...