tree-rat
Language:
Australian:
Gnar-ruck
English JS Main:
tree-rat
English:
"...Native name Gnar-ruck / This animal is not very common, the more so in the interior parts than near the / shores. It sometimes gets into the Houses and live on Corn of any kind, it proves / very distructive to Indian Corn. It sometimes burrows in the ground but it is / oftener found to retreat into the holes of Rocks, or into hollow trees. It has a / false Belly or pouch for its young like the Opossum tribe. It generally has / two young ones." ====Rodent ... painted brown overlaid with black and grey hatched lines, with paler underparts. ...
Credits:
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: rodents
Source:
Painters
Line:
12081
Respelt:
nga-rag
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?
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Comment:
Watling Drawing - no. 81 : Rodent, "Native name Gnar-ruck" / Port Jackson Painter