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Bittern

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
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? -------------- 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. 308 : "Little Bittern", native name "Go-ning-nak" / Port Jackson Panter]

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