glider
Language:
Australian:
Goo-roe-Goo-roe
English JS Main:
glider
English:
[Feathertail or pigmy glider ] "Native name Goo-roe-Goo-roe" ====Chestnut brown furry mammal .... The four legs are spreadeagled to show the loose skin along the sides of the mammal. The tail is narrow with a central spine clearly delineated, and is almost the same size as the body. ...
Credits:
The author if this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: mammals
Sub-category:
possum
Source:
Painters
Line:
12091
Respelt:
guru guru
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. 91 : Marsupial, "Native name Goo-roe-Goo-roe