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 Feathertail or pigmy glider]
Category: 
fauna: mammals
Sub-category: 
possum
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
164
Line: 
174.1
Respelt: 
guru-guru
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. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 97: Brown, about 7 cm long, plus equal length tail. JS. Also Waltling 86.