hawk

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Geo-ga-rack
English JS Main: 
hawk
English: 
The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "Native name Geo-ga-rack". The drawing is annotated in pencil at top left "axillary Falcon Syn Supp ii p 42". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "axillary Falcon Lathams Syn - Suppt 2 p 42 one third the Natural size.". This bird was more recently identified as a Black-shouldered kite, Elanus notatus, or the Letter-winged Kite E. scriptus, ("but more likely the former which is relatively common in the Sydney area whereas the latter is only a very rare straggler") in Hindwood K. A., (1970). The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning. Black-shouldered kite. Auxiliary falcon
Category: 
fauna: birds
Sub-category: 
prey
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
179
Line: 
191
Respelt: 
gugarag
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
"Geo-ga-rack" gugarag = "... "Native name Geo-ga-rack"..." hawk : Smith & Wheeler [:179:191] [BB]
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 100: // Black-shouldered Kite