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Title
Series 2: Original watercolour drawings for the publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974 / by Peter Slater
Call number
PXD 1506/Boxes 09-12
Level of description
series
Date

1974
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours
Reference code
9640756
Physical Description
36 drawings - 36 x 32 cm - watercolour
Scope and Content
36 watercolour plates on board of Australian Birds. Each plate is annotated with plate number and its corresponding page number in the publication, A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines. There are also pencil notes and bird names.

1. Pittas Scrub-Birds and Bristle-Birds, plate 1, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 1
2. Lyrebirds, plate 2, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 2
3. Larks Pipits and Wagtails, plate 4, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 3
4. Cuckoo-Shrikes, plate 5, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 4
5. Thrushes, Bulbuls and Log-Runners, plate 6, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 5
6. Quail-Thrushes, plate 7, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 6
7. Babblers, Whipbirds and Mudbuilders, plate 8, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 7
8. Wrens, plate 10, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 8
9. Grass-Wrens, plate 11, PXD 1506/Box 9/no. 9
10. Warblers of Reeds and Long Grass, plate 12, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 1
11. Fairy Warblers, plate 13, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 2
12. Thornbills and Weebills, plate 14, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 3
13. Ground-Frequenting Warblers, plate 15, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 4
14. Scrub-Wrens, plate 16, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 5
15. Robins, plate 18, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 6
16. Fantails and Monarch Flycatchers, plate 19, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 7
17. Monarch Flycatchers, plate 20, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 8
18. Whistlers, plate 21, PXD 1506/Box 10/no. 9
19. Shrike-Tits and Shrike-Thrushes, plate 22, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 1
20. Chats, plate 23, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 2
21. Sittellas and Tree-Creepers, plate 24, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 3
22. Flower Peckers (Pardalotes and Mistletoe-Bird), plate 25, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 4
23. Sunbird, Silvereyes and Small Honeyeaters, plate 26, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 5
24. Long-Billed Honeyeaters, plate 27, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 6
25. Typical Honeyeaters, plate 28, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 7
26. Typical and Masked Honeyeaters, plate 29, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 8
27. White-Naped Honeyeaters and Striped Honeyeater, plate 30, PXD 1506/Box 11/no. 9
28. Yellow-Winged Honeyeaters and Tawny-Crowned Honeyeater, plate 31, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 1
29. Miners Friar-Birds and Wattle-Birds, plate 32, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 2
30. Finches, plate 33, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 3
31. Finches and Sparrows, plate 34, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 4
32. Starlings Orioles Figbird and Drongo, plate 35, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 5
33. Wood-Swallows, plate 36, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 6
34. Butcher-Birds and Magpies, plate 37, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 7
35. Bower-Birds and Catbirds, plate 38, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 8
36. Crows Currawongs Rifle-Birds and Manucode, plate 39, PXD 1506/Box 12/no. 9
System of arrangement
Listing of watercolours has been arranged in the order of plates in A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974. Plates have been housed according to size.
Copying Conditions
In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Peter Slater
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Peter Slater
Published Information
A field guide to Australian birds : passerines / Peter Slater. Adelaide : Rigby, 1974. (Mitchell Library call no. 598.29901/46)
Description source

Titles for contents list supplied by creator from publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 2: Passerines, 1974.
General note

Plates 3, 9, and 17 not received with collection.
Subject
Birds in art.
Birds--Australia--Pictorial works.
Ornithological illustration--Australia.
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