Seen but not heard : Lilian Medland's birds
Mattingley, Christobel, 1931-2014
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From a young age, Lilian was always sketching. After marriage in 1923 to Tom Iredale, they migrated to Australia. In the 1930s she provided 53 watercolour plates for a handbook of Australian birds. For the first time all 53 plates have been published.
Main title:
Seen but not heard : Lilian Medland's birds / by Christobel Mattingley
Imprint:
Canberra ACT National Library of Australia 2014
Collation:
207 p. colour illustrations
Notes:
Includes indexes.
Contents:
Lilian Medland, Christobel Mattingley -- The bird paintings -- Emu to white-chinned petrel -- Southern giant-petrel to Pacific gull -- Black-winged stilt to masked lapwing -- Double-banded plover to malleefowl -- King quail to white-quilled rock-pigeon -- Australian wood duck to Australasian shoveler -- Australian little bittern to royal spoonbill -- Australian hobby to sooty owl -- Double-eyed fig-parrot to palm cockatoo -- Little bronze-cuckoo to channel-billed cuckoo -- Blue-winged kookaburra to rainbow bee-eater -- Red-bellied pitta to tawny grassbird -- Crested shrike-tit to purple-crowned fairy-wren -- Weebill to rufous bristlebird -- Pale white-eye to pied honeyeater -- Pictorella mannikin to Albert's lyrebird
ISBN:
9780642277923 (pbk)
Dewey class:
759.994 SEE
Local class:
759.994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
80712
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 759.994 SEE | pbkAvailable |