[1925]. Watercolour, 30 cm by 20 cm, signed "N. W. Cayley" lower left, mounted and framed.

The accompanying plate to Chisholm, A. H. Australia's lorilet puzzle. The Emu, volume 29, 1929. Pp. 80-85.

This painting by Neville Cayley junior is one of the earliest ever of Fig Parrots and historically interesting because Coxen's Fig Parrot, the southernmost subspecies of the three Australian Fig Parrots, is now almost certainly extinct. "... the so-called Red-faced Lorilet, sent by Eli Waller, a Brisbane bird-dealer, to John Gould in 1866, and "christened" in 1867, was termed coxeni, in honour of Gould's brother-in-law, Charles Coxen, who was then doing much good public and ornithological work in the young capital city" (Chisholm, A. H. page 80). "The two specimens from which the accompanying paintings was made were borrowed by Mr Cayley from the Australian Museum. The northern Lorilet was purchased by the Museum from K. Broadbent, who collected it near Cairns in 1877, and the coxeni specimen was taken at the Richmond River, N.S.W., in November 1870; it was in the Dobroyde Collection, but the collector's name is not given" (Chisholm, A. H. Emu, volume 29, page 85)

PROVENANCE: The property of Charles Bryant (1902-1960), editor of The Emu from 1929 to 1960, and thence by descent.