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Sea-eagle

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Girvenera
English JS Main: 
Sea-eagle
English: 
"Pondicherry Eagle", native name "Girvenera" ---"This Hawk lives a good deal on Fish / which most of that Genus do that inhabit / New South Wales, where there are several / varieties, the likeness is strongly imitated. / The Natives call it Girvenera." ====Brown bird with white head and breast, black wing tips, yellow bill and yellow legs. ... Credits: The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
fauna: birds
Sub-category: 
water
Source: 
Painters
Line: 
12097
Respelt: 
dyi-ba-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. 97 : "Pondicherry Eagle", native name "Girvenera" / Port Jackson Painter]

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