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Lilian Medland

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Bird art

Bird art
Australian bird art

Seen But Not Heard: Lilian Medland's Birds

Christobel Mattingley

2014

"Lilian Medland has not received until now the recognition she deserves as a painter of birds. Due to world events and circumstances, five important books on birds containing her superb illustrations were never published. Despite such major disappointments, she continued to devote her time and talent to painting, first the birds of the British Isles and, later, those of Australia, her adopted country, where she died in 1955. Even now, she is not mentioned in the Australian Dictionary of Biography in her own right, but only in the entry for her husband, ornithologist Tom Iredale. Seen But Not Heard is the first publication to shine a light on the life and work of this much-overlooked but brilliant Australian natural history artist."

Birds of New Guinea

Tom Iredale

Georgian House

1956

Published in two volumes. Covers 347 species with 35 colour plates.

Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds

Tom Iredale

Georgian House

1950

A Manual Of The Birds Of Australia

Volume I: Casuarii to Columbae

Gregory M. Matthews and Tom Iredale

H.F. & G. Witherby

1921

Only Volume I of a projected four volume work was published.

From the introduction:

We have attempted to provide a handy book of reference to the known facts concerning Australian birds for the use of students, and to this end have given a complete primary synonymy, with reference to the coloured plates furnished in Gould's and Mathews's Birds of Australia, the standard works on the subject. The present work is entirely based upon Mathews's work, in which will be found complete accounts, as far as recorded, of the life- histories and economics, with full discussion of all nomenclatural problems, dissertations on the phylogeny of the groups and detailed synonymy. Any item not fully understood in the present essay will be found elaborately explained in that place. We have extracted the detailed descriptions of the plumages from the same work, but have supplemented them whenever opportunity has been afforded by the receipt of new material, and have made reference to literature recently published for additional matter. With regard to the description of nests and eggs we have purposely restricted these to the smallest items possible, as Australians have already two magnificent works on this subject, viz., those of Campbell and North.

The Birds Of The British Isles

Volumes I - V

Charles Stonham

E. Grant Richards

1906-1911

Originally published in 20 parts then collected in five volumes which were published between 1906 and 1911. The species accounts cover description, characteristics, habits and etymology.

The work includes 318 monochrome photogravure plates of drawings by Lilian Medland.