Birds. 17^ 



PI. 37, fig. 2. " Loxia nitens, of the Coast of Brazil. Nov. 8th, 

 1768. Sydney Parkinson pinx. ad vivum, 1768. Brasil." 

 This figure is undoubtedly intended to represent Volatinia 

 jacarini (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B., xii., p. 152, though the name 

 Loxia nitens has not previously been associated with it. This 

 same title is given in Solander's MSS. and may be a name 

 attached to the drawing either by himself or by Banks. 



PI. 38, fig. 1. " Motadlla avida, Sept. 28th, 1768. Lat. 19° OQ' 



North." 

 This figure is evidently intended for Motadlla flava (Linn.), 

 and is a young bird, probably procured when the species was on 

 its southward migration. 



Solander's MS. contains an account of the same specimen. 

 The name avida is bestowed by him on the species. 



PI. 38, fig. 2. " Motadlla velificans, of[f] the Coast of Spain. 

 Sydney Parkinson pinx. ad vivum, 1768, Sept. ; T. 10, 

 P. 6, Sept. 4, 1768." 

 This figure is evidently that of a female Wheatear, Saxicola 

 oenanthe (L.) ; cf. Seebohm, Cat. B., v., p. 383. 



Forster's Drawings. 

 The most important of the sets of Drawings from the Banksian 

 Library are undoubtedly those of Johann Georg Adam Forster, 

 who accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on Capt. 

 Cook's second voyage {cf. Hist. Brit. Mus. Coll., Libraries, pp. 

 36, 37). His drawings are mostly on folio sheets of paper. 

 After fifty years a description of them was published by Heinrich 

 Lichtenstein in 1844.* The Birds commence with : — 

 PI. 32. Falco serpentarius, Miller. 



= Serpentarius secretarius (Scop.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus., i., p. 45 (1874). 

 Serpentarius serpentarius (Miller); Sharpe, Hand-list B., i. 

 p. 241 (1899). 

 This is a large coloured figure, but no mention is made of this 

 or the next bird in the " Descriptiones Animalium." 

 PI. 33. " Falco plancus, Gm." 



= Polylorus tliarus (Mol.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B., i., p. 31. 

 This is a large full-sized figure, identified in a MS. hand- 

 writing as Falco plancus, under which name it is figured by Shaw 

 in Miller's " Cimelia Physica " (PI. 17), 1796. It is the " Plaintive 



* Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per 

 annos 1772, 1773, et 1774 suscepto collegit, observavit, et delineavit Joannes 

 Reinlioldus Forster, etc., curante Henrico Lichtenstein. 8vo. Beroliui, 1S4-1. 



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