This looks like another tropical visitor to Chowder Bay; see also flic.kr/p/FA278r . Range is normally tropical Australia; this individual is a good size too, about 15 cm.
1 drawing (7 x 15 cm.) of a Porgy (indet.) created 13 Jul 1865 by Jacques Burkhardt at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: ARC 209-003