cockatoo
Language:
Australian:
Karratt
English JS Main:
cockatoo
English:
"Banksian Cockatoo", native name "Karratt" ====The bird is predominantly black, with a crested head. There are pale green spots on the crest, head and wing, and pale green horizontal marks on the throat and breast. The tail feathers are mottled with yellow and red. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: birds
Sub-category:
parrot
Source:
Painters
Line:
12138
Respelt:
gara-d
Part of speech:
noun
Meaning Clue:
"Karratt" garad = ""Banksian Cockatoo"" cockatoo black: Painters [::] [BB]
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?
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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.
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Comment:
Watling Drawing - no. 138 : "Banksian Cockatoo", native name "Karratt" / Port Jackson Painter]
[Keith Smith comment: Ca-ratt - J. Hunter 1790]