Bittern
Language:
Australian:
Go-ning-nak
English JS Main:
Bittern
English:
Little Bittern-----Native name Go-ning-nak ------The bird has a pale yellow breast with the feathers outlined in grey, and black markings. The wing is also pale yellow, with brown patches and blue-grey feathers. The back is black, and the throat and belly white. The drawing is separated from the bottom annotation by a ruled line of black ink. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: birds
Sub-category:
water
Source:
Painters
Line:
12308
Respelt:
gåninga-nag
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?
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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.
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Comment:
Watling Drawing - no. 308 : "Little Bittern", native name "Go-ning-nak" / Port Jackson Panter]