magpie-lark

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Karrook
English JS Main: 
magpie-lark
English: 
"Blue and White Crow", April - Native name Karrook, a rare Bird". ====The bird is predominantly black and white, with dark blue in its wings and at the end of the tail and white highlights. Some of the wing feathers are brown. ... Credits: The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
fauna: birds
Source: 
Painters
Line: 
12145
Respelt: 
ga-rug
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
INDIGENOUS NAMES IN WORKS BY THE PORT JACKSON PAINTER, THOMAS WATLING etc. Watling Collection, Natural History Museum, London Transcribed by Keith V. Smith 2002 Watling, Thomas, 1762-1814? -------------- NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON <[WebCat] Search The Natural History Museum's library catalogue> The 5-digit numbers are the picture identification numbers quoted near the end of each entry. --------- Most or all of the items with an indigenous word attached are in the JS PAINTERS ringbinder, arranged alphabelically by a JS ’no hyphens’ transcription. ========= NO PAINTERS FILE: This is the PENCIL line number (in JS ’Painters’ ringbinder) supplied by Keith Smith. the page numbers entered by JS
Comment: 
Watling Drawing - no. 145 : "Blue and White Crow", native name "Karrook" / Port Jackson Painter] [Keith Smith comment: Car'ruck"Caley; karuk - RH.Mathews]