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brolga

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Duralia / moojel /
English JS Main: 
brolga
English: 
brolga
Category: 
fauna: birds
Sub-category: 
water
Source: 
Hunter Sketch Book
Page: 
45
Respelt: 
duraliya mudyil
Part of speech: 
phrase
Date: 
178890
Meaning Clue: 
dura-liya = ‘A hearn (heron?)’: King in Hunter [408.2:8]
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: 
Faint separating lines in original in HSB p. 45

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