mopoke

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Boo-book
English JS Main: 
mopoke
English: 
The drawing is annotated in ink at bottom "This Bird is about the size of the common English owl. Native name Boo-book." The drawing is annotated in pencil at top centre "Boobook Owl - Sup ii : 64". This has been copied in ink at bottom, "Boobook Owl. Lathams Syn Suppt ii p 64". This bird was more recently identified as the Boobook Owl Ninox novaeseelandiae in Hindwood K. A. (1970). The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.Boobook owl
Category: 
fauna: birds
Sub-category: 
night
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
181
Line: 
192
Respelt: 
bu-bug
Part of speech: 
noun
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 193: This bird is about the size of the common English Owl