RED-EARED FIRETAIL

2003
yuill|crowley
Sydney NSW



AUSTRALIAN GRASS FINCHES
2003
25 units
each 41 x 41cm
oil on canvas





RED-EARED FIRETAIL

"A ... red-rumped finch with red ear patch and black abdomen spotted white. Above, olive-brown, finely barred black with crimson rump; face, black; ear patch, crimson; throat and upper breast, pale buff barred black; abdomen, black with large white spots. Bill, red; eyes, red with ring of naked blue skin; legs, dark brown."

Slater, Peter, A Field Guide to Australian Birds Volume Two, Rigby, Sydney, 1974

The descriptions have been re-ordered to begin with the bill; then parts of the head which can include: face, forehead, crown, nape, eye, ear patch, chin, throat; above: crown, nape, back; rump; below: throat, breast, sides, abdomen, flanks, under tail; tail; legs. The pairs and triplet are forms of the same species that differ in the colouring of one or two parts.