清 Qing dynasty 軸 紙本設色 Hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper
149.8cm (H) x 101cm (W)
楊大章，乾隆（1736-1795年）時供奉內廷。根據御製詩及「御製額摩鳥記」得知，乾隆認為此鳥並非原產於西方。乾隆於1774年（乾隆三十九年）由番舶得此鳥後，遂針對其種種不實傳說，一一驗證駁斥，並於同年要求畫家補繪入現在同時展出的〈鳥譜〉（1.5）中。這種鳥可能是產於澳洲及新幾內亞島附近的食火雞。
Yang Ta-chang, dates unknown, served in Qianlong’s (1736-1795) court. The Qianlong Emperor, in his poetry and “Imperial Record on the E-mo Birds”, wrote that the E-mo bird was not native to the West. After the emperor acquired one from a foreign ship in 1774, he re-examined and refuted his previous account as wrong. In that year, the emperor requested painters to add the E-mo bird to the Manual of Birds (1.5), also on display here. The bird is perhaps a kind of cassowary (casuaris) bird indigenous to Australia or the New Guinea area.
