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Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807 With digital objects
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Yellow-wattled lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus)

Painting of a small brown bird with yellow face and legs, black head cap and tail feathers, rocky pile in the right foreground, taller trees in the right middle ground, and full background featuring large, white building with two towers, surrounded by foliage.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

White-browed Wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis)

Painting of a small black bird with white sections at eyes, belly, and wings. Plain foreground with beige earth and bush, detailed background with people doing laundry in the river with buildings and mountains further back. Inscription at bottom centre reads, "Large pied wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

White-browed Bulbul (Pycnonotus luteolus)

Small brown bird with white eye patch, tan-yellow belly, and whiskers on face and head. Tail is slightly darker brown. Bird is perched on branch with some foliage. Lightly pencilled (illegible) identification of bird, with heavily pencilled "Muscicapa" inscribed in lower right corner.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)

Painting of a waterbird with light black back and bright orange under-tail and white breast, with bright spot of orange on top of beak. Long extended claws at shoreline, partial background of water and reed plants. Inscription in bottom left reads, "White-breasted water hen (Amaurornis phoenicurus)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

White-bellied drongo (Dicrurus caerulescens)

Painting of a dark, red-eyed bird with lighter chest and white belly. No background. Large number of very faint pencilled notes on front in lower left and upper right hand corners.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida)

Painting in mat frame of a white and grey tern with darker bib and black headcap. Orange-red beak and feet. No background other than the suggestion of a beige rock and ground under the bird's body. Inscription below painting reads, "White-cheeked tern (Sterna albigena)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)

Painting in mat frame of a small brown bird with long, thin beak, neck and back covered in brown and white speckled feathers, white underbelly and grey legs. Rocky piles at both the foreground and background, plain ground otherwise. Inscription at bottom left reads, "Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

Full scale painting of a brown raptor with lighter face, chest, and tail feathers. Branch perch and some background very vaguely and lightly sketched out, with much smaller bird drawn on another branch in the bottom right. Inscription below painting include, "Circus cinereus (52)," faintly pencilled in lower left corner, and pencilled in the centre below the painting, "Marsh Harrier (circus aeruginosus)," "circus aeruginosis vel spilunotus [sp?]," "[KS #41] or [44]."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

Mounted painting of a multi-shaded brown eagle, perched on rock with branches and foliage close by. Inscription below the painting reads, "Circus aeruginosus (54) Male symbol" and in lower right corner, "Circus aeruginosus Male symbol Marsh Harrier [K.S. No.41]."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

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