Phalaropes

Date: [ca Jul-Dec 1983]

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

Reference: PA12-11122

Description: Colour transparencies of birdlife and local scenes taken by James (Jim) Watt in Chile during the Totorore expedition and his travels after he left the expedition, circa Jul-Dec 1983. Set includes images of Magellanic penguins swimming and nesting (including Guafo Island and Lagartija Island), upland and kelp geese, great grebes, a giant petrel, a grey phalarope, black-necked swans, a caracara (Guafo Island), Inca and South American terns (at Ancud), and two images of a dead slender-billed "narrow-bill" prion. Also contains image of sea lions and a street scene in Santiago. Inscriptions: Note from depositor reads: "Large box of slides - glaciers, Patagonia, Andes, Quintepeu, Reloncavi, [Reniaue?] Mountains, Guafo Island". Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1830

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Transfer drawings and proof plates for Volume 2 (Birds) of Richardson and Swainson's Fauna Boreali Americana, 1830s. 1829.

Reference: E-258-q-105

Description: Lithograph of a phalarope on the seashore Other Titles - Grey phalarope Other Titles - Phalaropus lobatus Other Titles - Wilson's phalarope Other Titles - Lobipes wilsonii Other Titles - American phalarope Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 69 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 202 x 166 mm

Date: 1828

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Transfer drawings and proof plates for Volume 2 (Birds) of Richardson and Swainson's Fauna Boreali Americana, 1830s. 1829.

Reference: E-258-q-106

Description: Drawing of a phalarope on the seashore. Includes scale to indicate wing length Other Titles - Grey phalarope Other Titles - Phalaropus lobatus Other Titles - Wilson's phalarope Other Titles - Lobipes wilsonii Other Titles - American phalarope Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Pl 69; Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 280 x 221 mm

Date: 1779

From: Ellis, William Wade, d 1785 :[A collection of drawings made by William Ellis on H.M.S. Discovery and Resolution during Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific 1776-1780]

Reference: A-264-033

Description: Four drawings of the heads of birds, seen in profile, with two seen from above and the beaks and feet or legs of the three upper specimens also shown. The birds shown are the Phalarope, the Alaskan 3-toed woodpecker, a gull probably from Alaska and the butcher bird Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - titles in ink, with numbers 74, 75, 76 and 77. Also in pencil, top right, the number 1.191 crossed out and 1.210 substituted Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 311 x 200 mm Provenance: Astley family; sold 1974