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mouse

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Mirrin
English JS Main: 
mouse
English: 
"The Natural Size Native Name Mirrin The Penes and Testacles made visible. The former placed between the latter and the anus. This Animal I cut out of a fallen Rotten tree, into which my Dog drove it." The drawing is unsigned and undated. The mammal has been identified by John Calaby in Wheeler and Smith (1988) as the Brown Marsupial-mouse, Antechinus stuartii. The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
fauna: rodents
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
161
Line: 
171
Respelt: 
mi-rin
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 83:

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