potoroo
Language:
Australian:
Potoroo
English JS Main:
potoroo
English:
On the reverse of the drawing there is a pencil and watercolour sketch of the same animal in the same position, facing to the left.
The animal was identified as the Potoroo, Potorous tridactylus, by John Calaby in Wheeler and Smith (1988)
The author if this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: mammals
Sub-category:
kangaroo
Source:
Smith & Wheeler
Page:
146
Line:
153
Respelt:
bådå-ru
Part of speech:
noun
Source Details:
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp.
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Comment:
Watling 89:
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‘ The marsupialÊfamily Potoridae includes the bettongs, potoroos and rat-kangaroos. All are small, brown, jumping marsupials and resemble a large rodentÊor a very small wallaby. ‘ <http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com>