Pheasant Coucal

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Tem-minck
English JS Main: 
Pheasant Coucal
English: 
"Pheasant Cuckoo", native name "Tem-minck" ---/ The New South Wales Pheasant. The only one seen as yet." ====The head, breast and belly are black. The back, wings and tail are patterned in shades of ochre, brown, grey and black. ... Credits: The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
fauna: birds
Source: 
Painters
Page: 
155
Line: 
12155
Respelt: 
dam-minag
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. 155 : "Pheasant Cuckoo", native name "Tem-minck" / Port Jackson Painter]