Based on Lysaght 1959, p. 290

• "Anas atricilla. he-pàtek Dusky Bay. N.Z. April 7th. 1773."
• Added by Jonas Dryander (1748-1810): "Ge. Forster"
• Added by an unknown hand: "— nova Selandia S.N.XIII: 541. n. 58. Lath. 543. n. 80."

This is one of the water-colour drawings made by Georg Forster during James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific in 1772-1775.

The watercolour is listed by Sharpe 1906, p. 185 and by Lysaght 1959 p. 290 as Plate 79. This is the number written on the right-hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 77.

This picture was used by John Latham when describing the "New-Zealand duck".(Latham, 1785, p. 543).

The watercolour of a male bird was painted in 1773 and is the holotype for the species.(Medway 1976 pp. 54-55)

• Dawson, W. (1958). The Banks letters: a calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks. London: Trustees, British Museum. p. 339.

• Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 543.

• Forster, Johann Reinhold; Lichtenstein, Heinrich (1844). Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto (in Latin). Berolini: Ex Officina Academica. p. 95, No. 100.

• Lysaght, Averil (1959). "Some eighteenth century bird paintings in the library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. 1 (6): 251–371 (290, No. 79).

• Medway, David G. (1976). "Extant types of New Zealand birds from Cook's voyages. Part 1: Historical and type paintings". Notornis. 23 (1): 45–60.

• Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1906). The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Vol. 2 Separate Historical Accounts of the Several Collections included in the Department of Zoology. Part 3 Birds. London: Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 79-515.