English: A page from the sketchbook used by John Cotton, an Anglo-Australian ornithologist, in preparation for his planned book on the birds of the Port Phillip District, New South Wales, Australia.
Cotton died before the work was completed. Several of his sketches were eventually published in John Cotton's Birds of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales 1843-1849 (1974, William Collins (Australia), ISBN0-00-211439-9).
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between 1844 and 1849
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