Australian perching bird with red bill and feet, dark blue barred wing, and some blue under throat.
Eurystomus orientalis
Dollar-bird, Dollarbird
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Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908 :Australian dollar bird. [1880]
Date: 1880
From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian birds; original drawings. 1867. [ca 1880-1881]
Reference: E-055-011
Description: Head and upper body of the dollar bird. The bill is pinkish red. Upper parts are brown; throat blue; wings blue-green with black on lower part of the wing. The eye is red. Other names from `The birds of Australia; a book of identification' by Ken Simpson & Nicolas Day (1984) Other Titles - Eurystomus orientalis Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 86 x 112 mm
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Backhouse, John Philemon, 1843-1908 :Golden oriole, Queensland. Dollar bird, Queensland...
Date: 1873
From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :[Birds, mostly Australian] 1873
By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908
Reference: B-107-024
Description: Two colourful Australian birdsden oriole being orange and black, and the dollarbird blue and black with a red bill. The oriole's name appears to read Doriole, but another oriole in this group is correctly named and the title for the 'doriole' must be just an extra squiggle in the handwriting. Exhibited in 'Wild Things: Botanical and Zoological Art from the Alexander Turnbull Library' exhibition, National Library Gallery, 22 November 1998 - 21 March 1999. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 237 x 325 mm.
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Raper, George, 1769-1797: [Oriental dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis)]
Date: [ca 1790]
From: Raper, George, 1769-1797: Birds of Australia and South Seas. Original drawings 1788-90. From E. Cane
By: Raper, George, 1769-1797
Reference: E-327-f-017
Description: Oriental dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis). Specimen depicted in profile perched on a trunk. It has an orange-red beak, spotted blue throat, brown and grey body and blue and black wing feathers. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink on laid paper, 415 x 262 mm.