The black Swan the size of an English Swan Native name Mulgo". The drawing is unsigned and undated, but was published in London in 1792 (see note below). The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Black Swan Syn. Sup 2 343", and at bottom in brown ink "Black Swan Latham Syn Suppt 2. p. 343.". This bird was more recently identified as the Black Swan, Cygnus atratus in Hindwood K. A. (1970). The drawing was copied and reproduced in Shaw, G. and Nodder, P. Naturalist's Miscellany Volume 3, plate 108, London, 1792. Shaw acquired the original drawing from Thomas Wilson of London, who received it from John White, the surgeon-general to the colony in New South Wales. Shaw's pencil tracing of the drawing is contained in a book of his original sketches held in the General Library of the Natural History Museum (manuscript shelves). John White describes his first sighting of a black swan on 15th April 1788 in his Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, originally published in 1790. (see A.H. Chisholm (ed.),. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales by John White. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1962. pp.121). The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.Black swan