Petrels - Chile

Date: [ca Jul-Dec 1983]

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11109

Description: Colour transparencies of birdlife, sailing, and local scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt in Chile during the Totorore expedition, circa July-Dec 1983. Set includes images on Guafo Island, including a burial cave with coffin, a shipwreck, fossils, and a dead turtle. A variety of birds, including oystercatchers displaying feathers, a widgeon [sic] in flight, upland and ashy-headed geese, rufous back negrito hen and male, and Wilson's storm petrels. Many bird images are from Guafo Island. Also contains an image of a fishing boat at Pumalin and a dead narrow-billed prion "belcherii". Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Sequence from tray labelled Puerto Montt etc. Tray No 2" Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: [ca Jul-Dec 1983]

From: Watt, James Norwood, 1928-2018: Collection

Reference: PA12-11115

Description: Colour transparencies of birdlife, sailing, and local scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt in Chile during the Totorore expedition, circa Jul-Dec 1983. Set includes images of Wilson's storm petrels, an Inca tern in flight, imperial shags "albiventers" in flight (at Punta Arenas), a sooty shearwater, birds nests with eggs in them, a Patagonian sand plover, an imperial shag "atricepts" on the water, and hooded gulls. Also contains images of the 'Totorore' in a fjord, "Curanto Hoffman" [hotel?] at Tenglo Island (Puerto Montt), buildings on the water (Valdivia), spurs for sale in a shop window, unidentified brick ruins, a cart, [cattle?], a chart of path from Valdivia to Puerto Montt, a Patagonian glacier viewed from the air, and expedition member Andreas von Meyer. Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Puerto Montt - small box of slides." Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies