finch
Language:
Australian:
Goo-lung-ag-ga
English JS Main:
finch
English:
"Native name Goo-lung-ag-ga. It is a very common Bird in New South Wales easily domesticated and of a most lively disposition, even when in a Cage, and in a Day or two it is perfectly reconciled".
The drawing is annotated in pencil at top "Temporal Finch. Syn Sup 2. 211". This has been copied in ink at lower left, "Temporal Finch Latham Syn. Suppt 2. p. 211.".
This bird was more recently identified as the Red-browed Finch Aegintha temporalis in Hindwood K. A. (1970). (ITIS gives Neochmia temporalis as the preferred taxonomic name for the Red-browed Finch.)
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Red-browed finch
Category:
fauna: birds
Source:
Smith & Wheeler
Page:
190
Line:
203
Respelt:
gulanga-ga
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.
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Comment:
Watling 245: It is a very common Bird in New Southg Wales easily domesticated and of a most lively disposition, even when in a Cage, and in a Day or two is perfectly reconciled.