• Title
  Series 1: Original watercolour drawings for the publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 1: Non-Passerines, 1970 / by Peter Slater
• Call number
  PXD 1506/Boxes 01-08
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1970
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  9640765
• Physical Description
  62 drawings - watercolour; pencil; pen and ink and pencil; on board and paper - 44 x 30 cm; 51 x 38 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  62 watercolour, some pen and ink and pencil drawings, plates on board and paper 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 1: Non-Passerines. There are also pencil notes and bird names.
  
  1. Penguin heads, plate 1, PXD 1506/Box 1/no. 1
  2. Albatross and Giant Petrel heads, plate 2, PXD 1506/Box 1/no. 2
  3. Albatrosses and Giant Petrel, plate 3, PXD 1506/Box 1/no. 3
  4. Petrels, plate 4, PXD 1506/Box 1/no. 4
  5. Gadfly Petrels, plate 5, PXD 1506/Box 1/no. 5
  6. Prions Blue Petrel and Diving Petrels, plate 6, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 1
  7. Shearwaters, plate 7, PXD 1506/Box 1/no. 6
  8. Storm-Petrels (watercolour on paper), plate 8, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 2
  9. Grebes and Pelican (pencil sketch), plate 9, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 3
  10. Frigatebirds and Tropicbirds, plate 10, PXD 1506/Box 1/no. 7
  11. Gannet and Boobies, plate 11, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 1
  12. Egrets and Spoonbills, plate 13, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 2
  13. Ibises, Herons, Storks and Cranes, plate 14, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 3
  14. Bitterns, Night Herons and Cattle Egret, plate 15, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 4
  15. Swans, Geese and Large Ducks, plate 16, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 5
  16. Ducks, plate 17, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 6
  17. Ducks, plate 18, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 7
  18. Small Ducks and Musk Duck, plate 19, PXD 1506/Box 3/no. 8
  19. Goshawks Small Kites and Crested Hawk, plate 20, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 4
  20. Kites Red Goshawk and Little Eagle, plate 21, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 5
  21. Large Raptores, plate 22, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 6
  22. Falcons, plate 23, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 7
  23. Goshawks Small Kites Crested Hawk overhead (pen and ink and pencil), plate 24, PXD 1506/Box 2/no. 8
  24. Kites and Small Eagles overhead (pen and ink and pencil), plate 25, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 1
  25. Large Raptores overhead (pen and ink and pencil), plate 26, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 2
  26. Falcons overhead (pen and ink and pencil), plate 27, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 3
  27. Stone-Curlews Mound Builers and Bustard, plate 28, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 4
  28. Small Crakes and Rails, plate 30, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 5
  29. Large Rails and Lotusbird, plate 31, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 6
  30. Sandpipers, plate 32, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 7
  31. Sandpipers in flight (uncoloured pencil sketch), plate 33, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 8
  32. Sandpipers and Phalaropes, plate 34, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 9
  33. Sandpipers in flight (uncoloured pencil sketch), plate 35, PXD 1506/Box 4/no. 10
  34. Phalaropes, plate 36, PXD 1506/Box 5/no. 1
  35. Plovers and Turnstone, plate 37, PXD 1506/Box 6/no. 1
  36. Plovers and Turnstone in flight, plate 38, PXD 1506/Box 6/no. 2
  37. Plovers and Dotterels, plate 39, PXD 1506/Box 6/no. 3
  38. Plovers and Dotterels in flight (pen and ink and pencil), plate 40, PXD 1506/Box 6/no. 4
  39. Large Waders, plate 41, PXD 1506/Box 6/no. 5
  40. Large Waders in flight, plate 42, PXD 1506/Box 5/no. 2
  41. Pratincoles Snipe and Oystercatches, plate 43, PXD 1506/Box 6/no. 6
  42. Skuas, plate 44, PXD 1506/Box 5/no. 3
  43. Gulls, plate 45, PXD 1506/Box 5/no. 4
  44. Tern heads (watercolour on paper), plate 46, PXD 1506/Box 6/no. 7
  45. Tern heads, plate 47, PXD 1506/Box 5/no. 5
  46. Marsh Terns in flight, plate 48, PXD 1506/Box 5/no. 6
  47. Terns and Noddies in flight, plate 49, PXD 1506/Box 7/no. 1
  48. Ground Pigeons, plate 50, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 1
  49. Lorikeets Swift Parrot and Fig Parrot, plate 52, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 2
  50. Cockatoos, plate 53, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 3
  51. Parrots, plate 54, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 4
  52. Broad-Tailed Parrots, plate 55, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 5
  53. Psephotus Parrots, plate 56, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 6
  54. Small Parrots, plate 57, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 7
  55. Cuckoos, Bee-eater, and Roller, plate 58, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 8
  56. Bronze Cuckoos, plate 59, PXD 1506/Box 7/no. 2
  57. Large Cuckoos and Kookaburras, plate 60, PXD 1506/Box 7/no. 3
  58. Owls, plate 61, PXD 1506/Box 8/no. 9
  59. Kingfishers, plate 62, PXD 1506/Box 7/no. 4
  60. Frogmouths and Nightjars, plate 63, PXD 1506/Box 7/no. 5
  61. Swifts and Swallows, plate 64, PXD 1506/Box 7/no. 6
  62. Underwings of Gadfly Petrels, figure 7 (page 156, see also plate 5), PXD 1506/Box 7/no. 7
• System of arrangement
  Listing of watercolours has been arranged in the order of plates in A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 1: Non-Passerines, 1970, pages 5-131. 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 : non-passerines / Peter Slater. Adelaide : Rigby, 1970 (Mitchell Library call no. 598.29901/18A1)
• Description source
  
  Titles for contents list supplied by creator from publication A Field Guide to Australian Birds, Volume 1: Non-Passerines, 1970.
• General note
  
  Plates 12, 29, and 51 not received with collection.
• Subject
  Birds in art.
  Birds--Australia--Pictorial works.
  Ornithological illustration--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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