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Yellow Conure
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Sun Parakeet
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Aratinga solstitialis
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C. Collins Fect. Novemr 1742
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- Source of title proper: Caption title.
- Parallel titles and other title information: Title from Mousley: Conures solstitialis
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CA RBD MSG BW002-271
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1 watercolour painting ; 56 x 39 cm + 1 leaf
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(1680-1744)
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Charles Collins was an Irish painter, known for his portraits of animals and still-lifes. He achieved success in England painting exotic birds, game, dogs and dead game still-lifes. He was the painter for Robert Furber’s ‘Twelve Months of Fruit’ (1732). In 1736 he published in collaboration with John Lee a set of 12 large engravings, coloured by hand, of British birds in landscape and garden settings, entitled Icones avium cum nominibus anglicis. He then came to the attention of Taylor White, who engaged him to paint birds from his and others’ collections until 1743. Collins died in 1744, when he was described as ‘Bird Painter to the Royal Society.’
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Drawing of a Sun parakeet from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: West-central Guyana, extreme Southeast Venezuela, and Roraima, Brazil].
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General note
Manuscript note on front of drawing: Yellow Conure (Conures solstitialis) C. Collins Fect. Novemr 1742
General note
Manuscript note on back of drawing: Auransiacus, Submacrourus flavus L.S.N. The Golden Paroquet
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Scientific name: Aratinga solstitialis
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With manuscript text on accompanying leaf.
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Transcription of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Auransiacus
Submacrourus flavis virescens rostro et pedibus
nigroscentibus capite et pectore aurautiubus [aurantibus]
tectricibus viridibus sed in extremitatibus
luteis Remigibus et Rectricibus superiore
partibus caeruleis subtus flavis
virescentibus dorso abdomine et
partibus superioribus alarum flavis
virescentibus.
Magnitudo Turdi Cauda cunei formis
sed non Elongata.
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Translation of manuscript note on accompanying leaf: Auransiacus
Submacrourus flavis virescens [The golden-green...] with a black beak and feet, golden head and breast, and covert feathers that are green but with yellow outer edges; flight feathers on both the wings and tail that are blue on top, and yellow-green underneath; a golden-green back and abdomen, and wings that are golden-green on top.
It is the size of a thrush, with a tail that is wedge-shaped
but not very long.
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Volume number
Birds Volume 1, Painting 16