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Long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus)

Mounted painting of a light-headed bird with red belly and darker back and feathers, perched on the ground with a good amount of foliage. Inscription in lower left of drawing reads, "Buteo canescens (45)" and in lower right corner, "Buteo ferox ferox, Long-legged buzzard [K.S.#139]" with a question mark and a female symbol.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Indian spot-billed duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)

Mounted painting of a brown duck with dark back and spotted neck, yellow beak, light and dark and green tail feathers, standing on flat rock by the water with reeds and plants. Inscription in lower right corner reads, "Anas" with another faint inscription, "The male and female are both?"

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus)

Mounted painting of a white goose with two black bars on the back of head, standing by the water with wood and foliage, with a full landscape background with temples in the far left. Inscription below painting reads, "Bar-headed goose (anser indicus)." Another in lower right corner reads, "Anas."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Mounted painting of a brown and black waterbird sitting by the water with a rocky shore in the background, as well as temples, palms, and people carrying water in the distance.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Brown-headed gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus)

Mounted painting of a white gull with brownish-gray head, red beak, and a few dark tail feathers, standing on flat ground with hills and water in the background. Inscription below painting in pencil and struck through in lower right corner reads, "Larus ridibundus."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)

Mounted painting of a pair of birds, one brown and spotted, the other dark brown and black (with beak open), perched on a branch over a river with dense foliage in the left background and flat ground with palms and a building in the right background. Inscription below painting reads, "Koels [with male and female glyphs] (eudynamys honorata)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Lesser florikan (Sypheotides indicus)

Mounted painting of a small, spotted brown tall and thin bird, standing on a round piece of ground with a few bits of grass. Inscription below the painting reads, "lesser florikan or Likh [female gylph] (sypheotis aurite)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Indian eagle owl (Bubo bengalensis)

Mounted painting of a brown owl with white face mask, light gold belly, brown speckled chest and back, standing in front of rocky outcrop with minimal foliage. Inscriptions pencilled in lower right side of painting read, "Strix bubo" and "Huhna bengalensis (71)."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciata)

Framed painting of an eagle with light coloured head, chest, and belly, with wings of gradient shades of brown, standing on a rock with full leaves behind it. Pencilled notes and measurements in lower left corner: "N. Bonelli (33)" (remainder of inscription too faint to read).

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster)

Mounted painting of a dark brown water bird with lighter neck and head, no background. Inscription in pencil below painting reads, "Indian darter or snake-bird (plotus melanogaster)," another inked in lower right corner reads, "No 128 Plotus."

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

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