kingfisher

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
dere-a-mak
English JS Main: 
kingfisher
English: 
sacred kingfisher
Category: 
fauna: birds
Source: 
Hunter Sketch Book
Page: 
18
Respelt: 
diriyamag
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
The Hunter Sketch Book: Birds and Flowers of New South Wales drawn on the Spot in 1788 & 90 By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet. General Editor John Calaby. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1989
Comment: 
Source note: John Hunter Sketchbook TRANSCRIPTION ERROR FOR ’Dere-a-mah’: HSC [37]