lapwing
Language:
Australian:
Boon-ya-rin-a-rin
English JS Main:
lapwing
English:
Masked lapwing (Boddaert, 1783)
Category:
fauna: birds
Source:
Hunter Sketch Book
Page:
57
Respelt:
bu-nyari-narin
Part of speech:
noun
Date:
178890
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:
No 314, Watling collection:: note: ’...it is a rare bird, sometimes tho seldom to be met with on the flats going top Parramatta’ (HSB 56)