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magpie

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Ter-ra-wan-a
English JS Main: 
magpie
English: 
A magpie
Category: 
fauna: birds
Source: 
King in Hunter
Page: 
410.2
Line: 
4
Respelt: 
dara-wana
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1792
Meaning Clue: 
‘tarra-won-nang’ darra-wå-nang = ‘"Piping Roller"’ (Black-backed magpie): Painters [12513] [BB] "Ter-ra-wan-a" darawana = "A magpie": King in Hunter [:410.2:4] [BB] ‘dyirrawanang’ dyira-wa-nang = ‘brush magpie’: Mathews 8006/3/7/ - CRITERION [76:10.2] [DWL] ‘dyirrigang’ dyirri-gang = ‘Black magpie’: Mathews NGWL 1904 [304:8] [Gga/Ngwl]
Source Details: 
Originally published as An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island,with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip's Voyage, compiled from the Official Papers including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages from the First Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship's Company to England in 1792. By John Hunter, Esqr., Post Captain in His Majesty's Navy. Illustrated with Seventeen Maps, Charts, Views, & Other Embellishments Drawn on the Spot by Captains Hunter & Bradley, Lieutenant Dawes, & Governor King. London. Printed For John Stockdale, Piccadilly, January 1, 1793.

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