Honeyeater
Language:
Australian:
Balganera
English JS Main:
Honeyeater
English:
"White-crowned Honeyeater", native name "Balganera" ---- very numerous / and common in New South Wales. ====The upper parts of the bird are olive brown-green with black and white stripes above the eye and a white-grey band on the shoulder. The throat, breast and belly are off-white - grey. There are yellow feathers in the wing and tail. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: birds
Source:
Painters
Line:
12206
Respelt:
balga-nara
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. 206 : "White-crowned Honeyeater", native name "Balganera" / Thomas Watling]