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heron

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Collinah
English JS Main: 
heron
English: 
Rufous night heron (Gmelin, 1789) (not a Sydney bird?? JS)
Category: 
fauna: birds
Sub-category: 
water
Source: 
Hunter Sketch Book
Page: 
53
Respelt: 
gåli-na
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
178890
Meaning Clue: 
"Collinah" galina = "Rufous night heron (Gmelin, 1789) (not a Sydney bird?? JS)" heron rufous night: Hunter Sketch Book [:53:] [BB]
Source Details: 
The Hunter Sketch Book: Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788 & 90 By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. General Editor John Calaby. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1989
Comment: 
’...found near brackish water in in most regions of australia and in islands to the north and east of Australia.’ [HSB 52]

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