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Although the disappearance of the actual specimens is never 

 sufficiently to be regretted, some little compensation for their loss 

 is to be found in the collection of drawings made by the artists 

 whom Banks employed during the voyages of Capt. Cook. These 

 " Drawings" came into the possession of the British Museum with 

 the rest of the Banksian Library, and they are now preserved in 

 the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 



Parkinson's Drawings. 



The earliest of these collections is that of Sydney Parkinson, 

 who accompanied Sir Joseph Banks as draughtsman, on Capt. 

 Cook's first voyage round the world (1768—1771). See Hist. 

 Coll. Brit. Mus., I. (Libraries), p. 44. 



The figures of birds are 32 in number (Plates 7-38). 

 Many of them are mere pencil outlines, and it is tolerably 

 certain that all the artists who accompanied Banks on Captain 

 Cook's voyages, Parkinson, George Forster, and Ellis, were 

 in the habit of drawing an outline, sometimes colouring the 

 bill and feet from the freshly shot bird, but much of the colour- 

 ing was left to be filled in at home from the actual specimens, 

 and in many cases this was never done. 



PI. 7. "No. 12, Falco. The colour of the beak pale bluish- 

 grey, the feet dirty grey blue. Terra del Fuego." 

 This plate, which is a pencil sketch only, is apparently 

 intended to represent Ibycter chimango (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B., 

 L, p. 41 (1874). 



PI. 8. " No. 5, Green Peroquet, Otahite. Aa." 



= Cyanorhamplius erythronotus (Kuhl.) (cf. Salvad., Cat. B., 



xx., p. 579). 



Kuhl's type of his Psittacus erythronotus was in Bullock's 



Museum, and thence came into the British Museum, but is no 



longer to be found there (cf. Salvad., i.e., p. 580, note). It is not 



mentioned in G. R. Gray's list of Psittacidse (p. 12, 1859). 



PL 9. " No 3, Blue Perroquet. The face, throat and breast 

 white, romp and neck dirty grey, turning blue towards 

 the edge, the feet and beak a bright orange, claws 

 black, all the rest of the body w* dark ultra[marine], 

 shaded w l P[ale] B[lue], like shining blue steel. 

 Avinne." 

 This plate, which is only a pencil sketch, most probably repre- 

 sents the Otaheitan Blue Parrakeet of Latham, Gen. Syn., i., p. 255 



