Archivo:Forster Anas georgica.jpg

Based on Lysaght 1959, p. 289

• Anas xanthorhyncha Jan. 17. 1775. South Georgia."
• Added by Jonas Dryander: "Ge. Forster"
• Added by an unknown hand: "— georgica S.N.XIII: 516. Lath. 478. n. 34."

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. 184 and by Lysaght 1959 p. 289 as Plate 71. This is the number written on the right-hand side of the watercolour. The NHM lists this watercolour as Plate 69.

John Latham based his description of the "Georgia duck" on this picture by Forster.(Latham, 1785, p. 478).

The watercolour was painted in 1775 at South Georgia and is the holotype for the species.(Lysaght 1959, p. 289)

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

• 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. 342, No. 257.

• Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 2. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 478.

• 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 (289, No. 71).

• 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.