• Title
  Series 4: Original watercolour drawings for the publication The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, 2nd edition, 2009 / by Peter Slater
• Call number
  PXD 1506/Boxes 21-33
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  2009
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  9640767
• Physical Description
  174 drawings - 50 x 67 cm, 50 x 61 cm, 30 x 42 cm, and smaller - watercolour, pencil, on board
  
• Scope and Content
  174 watercolour, some pencil, plates on board of Australian Birds. Each plate is annotated with plate number and its corresponding page number in the publication, The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, 2nd edition. There are also pencil notes and bird names.
  
  1. Albino and Lutino Turqoise parrot, page 11, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 1
  2. Visual index, page 12, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 2
  3. Storm Petrels, plate 1, PXD 1506/Box 32/no. 1
  4. Polynesian, White-faced and Grey-backed storm petrels, plate 2, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 3
  5. White-bellied storm petrel, black-bellied storm petrel, plate 2, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 4
  6. White bellied, Grey-back, White-faced and Polynesian storm petrels, plate 2, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 5
  7. Northern Royal albatross, Southern Royal albatross, plate 3, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 6
  8. Albatrosses, plate 4, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 7
  9. Age stages of Wandering albatrosses, plate 4, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 8
  10. Age stages of Wandering albatrosses, plate 4, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 9
  11. Laysan albatross, plate 6, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 10
  12. Juvenile and adult Northern giant petrel, Adult and white phase Southern giant petrel, plate 7, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 11
  13. Adult and juvenile Sooty albatross, Adult and juvenile Light-mantled Sooty albatross, plate 7, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 12
  14. Prions, plate 9, PXD 1506/Box 32/no. 2
  15. Shearwaters, plate 10, PXD 1506/Box 33/no. 1
  16. Shearwaters, plate 11, PXD 1506/Box 33/no. 2
  17. Fluttering shearwater, Hutton's shearwater, plate 11, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 13
  18. Newell's shearwater, Manx Dark shearwater, plate 11, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 14
  19. Audubon's shearwarer and Little shearwater, plate 12, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 15
  20. Manx shearwater, Newell's shearwater, plate 12, PXD 1506/Box 21/no. 16
  21. Soft-plumaged petrel/Black petrel, plate 14/plate 13, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 1
  22. Great-winged petrel/Kerguelen petrel, plate 13/plate 14, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 2
  23. Bulwer's petrel, Kermadec petrel, Providence petrel, Herald petrel, plates 16/plate 14, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 3
  24. Jouanin's petrel, plate 14, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 4
  25. South Georgian diving-petrel, Common diving-petrel, plate 14, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 5
  26. Soft-plumaged petrel, Atlantic petrel, plate 15, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 6
  27. Tahiti petrel, Beck's petrel, plate 15, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 7
  28. Trindade petrel (light phase), Herald petrel (light phase), plate 16, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 8
  29. Herald petrel, plate 16, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 9
  30. White-headed petrel, Kermadel Petrel, plate 15/plate 16, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 10
  31. Providence petrel, Kermadec petrel, (reverse: rough sketch of kingfisher), plate 16, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 11
  32. Juan Fernandez petrel, plate 17, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 12
  33. Mottled petrel, White-naped (white-necked) petrel, plate 17, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 13
  34. Blue petrel, Barau's petrel, plate 17/18, PXD 1506/Box 22/no. 14
  35. Black-winged petrel, Pycroft's petrel, Cook's petrel, plate 18, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 1
  36. Gould's petrel, Collared petrel, plate 18, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 2
  37. [Royal] penguin, Erect-crested penguin, Fiordland penguin, Rockhopper penguin, plate 26, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 3
  38. Abbott's booby, plate 31, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 4
  39. Arctic Jaeger, adult dark phase, adult light phase non-breeding, plate 34, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 5
  40. Pomarine jaeger, adult non-breeding, juvenile, plate 34, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 6
  41. Light juvenile jaeger, dark juvenile jaeger, Long-tailed jaeger adult breeding, Long-tailed jaeger adult non-breeding, plate 34, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 7
  42. South polar skua, light phase, juvenile, dark phase, plate 34, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 8
  43. Brown skua, light phase, juvenile, plate 34, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 9
  44. Slaty-backed gull first winter, lesser black-backed non-breeding gull, Slaty-backed gull, Lesser black-backed first winter gull, Kelp gull first winter, plate 37, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 10
  45. Black-tailed gull, Kelp gull, Pacific gull first winter, Pacific gull, Black-tailed gull first winter, plate 37, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 11
  46. Mewgull, first non-breeding; Silver gull, first non-breeding adult, plate 38, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 12
  47. Laughing gull, Franklin's gull, Sabine's gull, Black-headed gull, plate 38, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 13
  48. Mew gull, non-breeding, plate 38, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 14
  49. Lesser black-backed gull (reverse- rough sketch), plate 39, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 15
  50. Lesser black-backed gull, Slaty-backed gull, plate 39/40, PXD 1506/Box 23/no. 16
  51. Mew gull (first-year), non-breeding, breeding, plate 40, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 1
  52. Slaty-backed gull (first-year), adult non-breeding, plate 40, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 2
  53. Elegant tern, non-breeding and breeding, plate 42, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 3
  54. Little tern non-breeding, Little tern juvenile, Saunder's tern non-breeding, Saunder's tern juvenile, Saunder's tern breeding, Fairy tern non-breeding, Fairy tern breeding, plate 46, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 4
  55. Little tern, breeding, plate 46, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 5
  56. Black-naped tern, plate 47, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 6
  57. Saunder's tern, plate 47, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 7
  58. Little tern, Saunder's tern, Fairy tern, plate 47, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 8
  59. Beach Stone Curlew, Oystercatchers, plate 50, PXD 1506/Box 33/no. 3
  60. Grey-headed lapwing, plate 51, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 9
  61. Latham's snipe, Swinhoe's snipe, Pintail snipe, plate 55, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 10
  62. Short-billed dowitcher, plate 56, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 11
  63. Short-billed dowitcher, non breeding and juvenile, plate 56 (marked as plate 46 in error), PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 12
  64. Juvenile wandering tattler, plate 61, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 13
  65. Wandering tattler, non-breeding, plate 61, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 14
  66. Wandering tattler, breeding, plate 61, PXD 1506/Box 24/no. 15
  67. Grey-tailed tattler (watercolour on reverse "don't use")-on smaller board, plate 61, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 1
  68. Grey-tailed tattler, adult breeding, plate 61, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 2
  69. Little grebe, Australasian grebe, Hoary-headed grebe, Great crested grebe, plate 69, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 3
  70. Grebes, plate 69, PXD 1506/Box 32/no. 3
  71. Canada goose, plate 71, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 4
  72. Paradise shelduck, male and female, plate 71, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 5
  73. Great-billed heron, plate 80, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 6
  74. Japanese night-heron, Malayan night-heron, plate 81, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 7
  75. Malayan night-heron, juvenile and adult, plate 81, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 8
  76. Japanese night-heron, plate 81, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 9
  77. Black-crowned night-heron, Nankeen night-heron, plate 81, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 10
  78. Cinnamon bittern, female and male, plate 82, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 11
  79. Australian little bittern, female and male, plate 82, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 12
  80. Yellow bittern, juvenile and adult, plate 82, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 13
  81. Von Schrenk's bittern, female and male, plate 82, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 14
  82. Australian little bittern, Yellow bittern, Von Schrenk's bittern, Cinnamon bittern, plate 82, PXD 1506/Box 25/no. 15
  83. Juvenile Australian little bittern, plate 82, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 1
  84. Purple heron , plate 83, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 2
  85. Javan Pond Heron, Javan Pond Heron juvenile, Javan Pond Heron juvenile in flight, Chinese Pond Heron, plate 83, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 3
  86. Bird's feet: Australian little egret, Eurasian little egret, Western reef egret, plate 84, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 4
  87. Egrets, plates 84/85, PXD 1506/Box 32/no. 4
  88. Great Egret, plates 84/85, PXD 1506/Box 32/no. 5
  89. Western reef egret, plate 85, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 5
  90. Eastern reef egret, plate 85, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 6
  91. Striated heron, dark, light grey, plate 85, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 7
  92. Striated heron, plate 85, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 8
  93. Striated heron, variants according to substrate, plate 85, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 9
  94. Red-necked rail, immature and adult, Lord Howe Woodhen, White-breasted waterhen, plate 89, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 10
  95. Watercock, male and female; immature Baillon's, plate 89/90, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 11
  96. Southern cassowary, plate 91, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 12
  97. Emu chick, Cassowary chick, plate 92, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 13
  98. Oriental honey-buzzard, plate 99, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 14
  99. Oriental honey-buzzard (head), plate 99, PXD 1506/Box 26/no. 15
  100. Hooded swamp harrier, plate 100, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 1
  101. Papuan harrier, plate 100, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 2
  102. Christmas Island goshawk, plate 102, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 3
  103. Christmas Island goshawk adult, plate 102, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 4
  104. Gurney's eagle, plate 103, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 5
  105. White-breasted sea-eagle adult, plate 103, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 6
  106. White-bellied sea-eagle juvenile, plate 103, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 7
  107. Peregrine race calidus, plate 105, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 8
  108. Eurasian hobby, plate 105, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 9
  109. Buffy fish owl, plate 108, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 10
  110. Christmas Island Hawk-owl, plate 108, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 11
  111. Tawny frogmouth sketch, page 202, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 12
  112. Nightjar shadows, plate 111, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 13
  113. Savanna nightjar, grey nightja, plate 111, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 14
  114. Barbary dove/Wallace's fruit-dove, plate 112/115, PXD 1506/Box 27/no. 15
  115. Red-collared dove, plate 112, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 1
  116. Orange-bellied fruit dove, plate 115, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 2
  117. Nicobar pigeon, plate 116, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 3
  118. Christmas Island imperial pigeon, plate 116, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 4
  119. Elegant imperial pigeon, plate 116, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 5
  120. Norfolk Island [Tasman] parakeet; Erect-crested penguin juvenile, plate 121/plate 27, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 6
  121. Asian drongo-cuckoo, plate 127, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 7
  122. Lesser coucal, plate 127, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 8
  123. Large hawk-cuckoo, plate 127, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 9
  124. Black-capped kingfisher, plate 131, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 10
  125. Common kingisher (pencil sketch on reverse), plate 131, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 11
  126. Common kingfisher, juvenile, plate 131, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 12
  127. Rainbow bee-eater, plate 133, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 13
  128. Silver-backed needletail, plate 134, PXD 1506/Box 28/no. 14
  129. White-throated needletail, plate 134, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 1
  130. Brown-backed needletail, plate 134, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 2
  131. House swift, plate 134, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 3
  132. Fork-tailed swift, plate 134, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 4
  133. Papuan spine-tailed swift, plate 134, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 5
  134. Black-nest swiflet, plate 135, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 6
  135. Swiftlets, plate 135, PXD 1506/Box 32/no. 6
  136. Red-rumped swallow, striated swallow, plate 136, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 7
  137. White-breasted wood swallow, little woodswallow, masked woodswallow, plate 137, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 8
  138. Asian house martin, plate 137, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 9
  139. Little woodswallow, masked swallow (white-browed woodswallow on reverse), plate 137, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 10
  140. Black-faced woodswallow, plate 137, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 11
  141. Hooded pitta, plate 138, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 12
  142. Fairy pitta, plate 138, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 13
  143. Assorted vagrant non passerines, plates 140/203, PXD 1506/Box 33/no. 4
  144. Fawn-breasted bowerbird, plate 141, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 14
  145. Norfolk Island greygone, plate 153, PXD 1506/Box 29/no. 15
  146. Eastern crowned warbler/Arctic warbler, plate 197/plates 153 and 197, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 1
  147. Kimberley honeyeater, plate 158, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 2
  148. Yellow-throated miner, black-eared miner (sketch on reverse), plate 162, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 3
  149. Regent juvenile honeyeater, painted juvenile honeyeater, tawny-crowned juvenile honeyeater, New Holland juvenile honeyeater, plate 167, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 4
  150. Juvenile rufous-throated [honeyeater], juvenile rufous-breasted [honeyeater], plate 168, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 5
  151. Chestnut-crowned babbler, plate 171, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 6
  152. Brown shrike, immature brown shrike, confusus/cristatus superciliosus, plate 174, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 7
  153. Tiger shrike, female, male, plate 176 [plate 174], PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 8
  154. Corvus hackles, plate 185, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 9
  155. Juvenile northern fantail, Arafura fantail, plate 188, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 10
  156. Broad-billed flycatcher tail, leaden flycatcher tail, plate 189, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 11
  157. Frilled monarch, frill-necked monarch, juvenile black-winged monarch, plate 190/191, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 12
  158. Northern scrub robin, plate 192, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 13
  159. Juvenile white-faced robin, plate 194, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 14
  160. Middendorff's warbler, Gray's warbler, plate 196, PXD 1506/Box 30/no. 15
  161. Pallas's grasshopper warbler ('rusty-rumped warbler'), plate 197, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 1
  162. Forest wagtail, plate 199, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 2
  163. Paddy field pipit, Australasian pipit (rogersi), tawny pipit, plate 200, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 3
  164. Christmas Island white-eye, Slender billed white-eye, white-chested white-eye, plate 202, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 4
  165. Island thrush, plate 203, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 5
  166. Asian brown flycatcher, Mugamaki flycatcher (female and male), Pallas's leaf-warbler, plate 204, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 6
  167. Assorted vagrant passerines, plates 204/206/210, PXD 1506/Box 32/no. 7
  168. Singing starling, plate 205, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 7
  169. Rosy starling, plate 205, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 8
  170. Purple-backed starling, plate 205, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 9
  171. Red-capped flower pecker, plate 206, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 10
  172. Black sunbird (female), Blue-and-white flycatcher (female), plate 206/plate 204, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 11
  173. Redpoll, yellow hammer, Java sparrow, plate 210, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 12
  174. Chaffinch, plate 210, PXD 1506/Box 31/no. 13
• System of arrangement
  Listing of watercolours has been arranged in the order of plates in The Slater field guide to Australian birds, 2nd edition, 2009. 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
  The Slater field guide to Australian birds / Peter Slater, Pat Slater, Raoul Slater. 2nd ed. Chatswood, N.S.W. : New Holland Publishers, 2009. (Mitchell Library call no. 598.0994/22)
• Description source
  
  Titles and plate numbers supplied by creator.
• General note
  
  Some plates not supplied by creator.
• Subject
  Birds in art.
  Birds--Australia--Pictorial works.
  Ornithological illustration--Australia.
  
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