THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA - CANBERRA

buff-breasted paradise kingfisher | bookmark thin card 210 x 49 mm
illustration by Lilian Medland, natural history artist and ornithologist

Lilian Medland (1880 - 1955), born in London, trained and worked for many years 
as a nurse in England. She made the illustrations to The Birds of the British Isles  
published between 1906 and 1911. Later in Australia, she produced 53 plates with 
watercolours depicting 883 Australian birds during the 1930s. She also worked for 
the Australian Museum in Sydney, painting 30 species of birds which were issued 
as postcards and as covers on the Australian museum magazine.

National Library of Australia, Canberra