cockatoo
Language:
Australian:
Kar ratt
English JS Main:
cockatoo
English:
"Banksian Cockatoo", native name "Kar ratt" ---All the varieties of the black Cockatoo are so called, this is the most uncommon Bird.====The bird has a crested head and is predominantly black or dark brown, with white highlights and black detail in the feathers, a yellow patch below the eye, and yellow patches in the tail. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: birds
Sub-category:
parrot
Source:
Painters
Line:
12137
Respelt:
gara-d
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?
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Comment:
Watling Drawing - no. 137 : "Banksian Cockatoo", native name "Kar ratt" / Thomas Watling]