glider

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Goo-roe Goo-roe
English JS Main: 
glider
English: 
ÒThe Natural Size.- Native name Goo-roe-Goo-roe." The drawing is signed "Thom. Watling, delt." but is undated. The mammal is identified by John Calaby in Wheeler and Smith (1988) as the Feathertail or pigmy glider, Acrobates pygmaeus. The author if this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.Ó Pygmy glider
Category: 
fauna: mammals
Sub-category: 
possum
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
164
Line: 
174
Respelt: 
guru-wi guru-wi
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
‘Goo-roe Goo-roe’ guru-wi guru-wi = ‘Pygmy glider’: Smith & Wheeler [164:174] [BB]
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. -------------
Comment: 
Source note: Watling . . . [KS has the number '97' nor '89.1' JS]