'The White Fulica' internment David Smallman

David Smallman

brown coat

Roehampton

Inscribed: 'Humphre delin

The expedition's tents and observatory pillar are visible in a treed interior

'The White Fulica' internment David SmallmanOrnithological study of a Lord Howe Swamphen or White Gallinule (Porphyrio albus), an extinct bird native to Lord Howe Island, Australia. Plate 27 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The body is about the size of a domestic fowl. The shoulders are furnished with a small crooked spine This bird is the only species of its genus yet known of a white colour' The plate is