'The White Fulica' Size:S: 30 x 25cm the Haymarket Theatre

the Haymarket Theatre

Half-length portrait in Royal Naval uniform against a background of sky and clouds

Lithographed for the Royal Asiatic Society

Like many cars of its day it features chain

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'The White Fulica' Size:S: 30 x 25cm the Haymarket TheatreOrnithological 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