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Honeyeater

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
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? -------------- NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON <[WebCat] Search The Natural History Museum's library catalogue> The 5-digit numbers are the picture identification numbers quoted near the end of each entry. --------- Most or all of the items with an indigenous word attached are in the JS PAINTERS ringbinder, arranged alphabelically by a JS ’no hyphens’ transcription. ========= NO PAINTERS FILE: This is the PENCIL line number (in JS ’Painters’ ringbinder) supplied by Keith Smith. the page numbers entered by JS
Comment: 
Watling Drawing - no. 206 : "White-crowned Honeyeater", native name "Balganera" / Thomas Watling]

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