Shrikes

Date: 1880

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian birds; original drawings. 1867. [ca 1880-1881]

Reference: E-055-029

Description: Male? crested shrike from Victoria. Distinctive black crested head with two broad white bands and patch at base of the black bill. The breast is yellow and the back is a greenish grey. The wings, tail and legs are grey. The eye is red. Possibly a poor representation of falcunculus frontatus. Compare with crested shrike-tit in `The birds of Australia; a book of identification' by Ken Simpson & Nicolas Day (1984), pp 180-181 Other Titles - Falcunculus frontatus Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 68 x 100 mm

Date: 1873

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :[Birds, mostly Australian] 1873

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: B-107-031

Description: An Australian shrike Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 319 mm

Date: 1828 - 1836

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Plates and drawings for The natural history of the birds of Western Africa... Edinburgh, 1837.

Reference: E-158-q-007

Description: Drawing of a Green shrike (Lanius viridis) on a branch. Scale below to show length of the wings Compare with watercolour at E-256-q-108 Other Titles - Malaconotus brevirostris Other Titles - Lanius viridis Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 165 x 90 mm

Date: 1828 - 1836

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Plates and drawings for The natural history of the birds of Western Africa... Edinburgh, 1837.

Reference: E-158-q-009

Description: Drawing of the longbilled shrike (Telophorus curvirostris) standing on a branch; scale below to show wing length Compare with watercolour at E-256-q-116 Other Titles - Longbilled shrike Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 160 x 89 mm

Date: 1830 - 1837

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Watercolours of birds. 1828-1837.

Reference: E-256-q-108

Description: Drawing of a short billed shrike on a branch. The plumage is a greyish green with pale orange breast and greenish-yellow underparts. There is a greyish green mask surrounding the eye with a thin yellow stripe above the eye extending to the back of the head. The beak is grey and slightly hooked at the end; the legs are grey. Compare with drawing at E-158-q-007 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 138 mm

Date: 1830 - 1837

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Watercolours of birds. 1828-1837.

Reference: E-256-q-116

Description: Drawing of a shrike perched on a branch. The plumage is brown, reddish brown, grey and black. The crown is brown qith a white and a brown stripe over the eye. The back is light brown; the cheeks are a lighter shade of brown; wings are reddish-brown; tail is black tipped with white; the underparts are pale grey. Compare with drawing at E-158-q-009 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 138 mm

Date: 1828 - 1836

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Plates and drawings for The natural history of the birds of Western Africa... Edinburgh, 1837.

Reference: E-158-q-010

Description: Drawing of the white crowned shrike (Chaetoblemma leucops) on a branch. Detail of beak beneath. Compare with watercolour at E-256-q-118 Other Titles - White crowned shrike Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 170 x 94 mm

Date: 1830 - 1837

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Watercolours of birds. 1828-1837.

Reference: E-256-q-118

Description: Front view of the white crowned shrike perched on a branch. Shows the off-white crown and underparts. The cheeks are black and the remainder of the plumage that is visible is light brown. Beneath is a pencil detail of the beak. Compare with drawing at E-158-q-010 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 140 mm

Date: 1880

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian birds; original drawings. 1867. [ca 1880-1881]

Reference: E-055-007

Description: On left the head of the yellow grosbill. The beak, and area around the eye and throat are black; the crown aand breast are black. The body is a yellowish-brown. The eye is red. On the right is the head of the black cap shrike. The head and bill are black; the throst is off-white. The back of the head is white changing to brown on the back, and black with patch of yellow on the shoulders. The eye is red. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 81 x 115 mm

Date: 1873

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :[Birds, mostly Australian] 1873

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: B-107-016

Description: An Australian shrike Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 230 x 319 mm

Date: 1828 - 1836

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Plates and drawings for The natural history of the birds of Western Africa... Edinburgh, 1837.

Reference: E-158-q-011

Description: Drawing of a shrike (Malaconotus swainsoni) on a branch; scale below to show wing length Compare with watercolour at E-256-q-023 Other Titles - Burchells bush shrike Other Titles - Malaconchis Burchelli Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 162 x 93 mm

Date: 1880

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian birds; original drawings. 1867. [ca 1880-1881]

Reference: E-055-019

Description: Head of a [male?] crested shrike from Victoria. Distinctive black crested head with two broad white bands and patch at base of the black bill. The breast is yellow and the back is a greenish grey. The eye is red. Possibly a poor representation of falcunculus frontatus. Compare with crested shrike-tit in `The birds of Australia; a book of identification' by Ken Simpson & Nicolas Day (1984), pp 180-181 Other Titles - Falcunculus frontatus Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 88 x 113 mm

Date: 1835

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Watercolours of birds. 1828-1837.

Reference: E-256-q-023

Description: Drawing of Bruchells bush shrike (same or similar to greyheaded bush shrike Malaconotus blanchoti). Shows a bird with a grey head; green wings and tail feathers with two rows of white stripes on the wings; golden yellow throat and breast with colour changing to a greenish yellow on the underparts. The beak is grey and there is a white patch extending from the eye to the beak. Compare with drawing at E-158-q-011 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 208 x 139 mm

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 (Collector) :[Zoological plates. 1810s to 1830s]

By: Oudart, Paul Louis, 1796-; Motte, Charles Etienne Pierre, 1785-1836

Reference: E-225-q-013

Description: A brightly-coloured shrike seated on a branch. Possibly an illustration drawn for the account of Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde (Paris, 1838-1843) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 127 x 212 mm

Date: 1830

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Zoological illustrations; birds. Plates and drawings for the first and second series. [1820-1822] 1828

Reference: E-155-q-040

Description: Shows a shrike on a branch Hand-coloured proof plate with pencil annotations Other Titles - Zoological Illustrated. Series 2. Plate 71 Inscriptions: Recto - Signature and date at base of branch Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, handcoloured, 230 x 140 mm

Date: 1829

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-020

Description: Drawing of the Northern shrike on a lichen covered branch Other Titles - Butcherbird Other Titles - Northern shrike Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 33 (pencil) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 300 x 238 mm

Date: 1830 - 1837

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Watercolours of birds. 1828-1837.

Reference: E-256-q-052

Description: Drawing of an unidentified bird (shrike) on a branch, as viewed from the front to show the golden yellow breast and underparts. The wings and tail feathers are green and tipped with yellow. The breast has a tint of orange. There is a grey stripe under the yellow eye, extending backwards. The crown and back may be grey (from what can be seen). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 120 mm

Date: 1834

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :The ornithological drawings of William Swainson (series 1) ; the birds of Brazil. London, 1834-1839.

Reference: E-263-q-059

Description: A Brazilian shrike perched on a branch and leaning forwards. The plumage on the body is greyish black. The wings are black and greyish black with bands of white. The tail feathers are black except for the outer tail feathers which are white with a black band. The crest is black. Extended Title - From; The ornithological drawings of William Swainson (Series 1). The birds of Brazil. London, 1834-1835. Plate 59 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 240 x 154 mm

Date: 1830 - 1839

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :[Pencil drawings of birds. 1810s to 1830s]

Reference: E-160-q-064

Description: Shows a bird on a branch. Includes artist's colour notes with square of brown watercolour to indicate colour of underparts; also detail of bill. Possibly a member of shrike family or similar Other Titles - Ceblephyris aureus Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 265 x 185 mm

Date: 1828 - 1829

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-021

Description: Drawing of the Loggerhead shrike on a lichen covered branch Other Titles - Loggerhead shrike Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 34; Recto - beneath image - Lanius ludovicianus. London. Printed for John Murray, book seller to the Admiralty, January 1st 1829 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 225 x 160 mm