tree-rat
Language:
Australian:
Gnar-ruck
English JS Main:
tree-rat
English:
Native name Gnar-ruck [White-footed tree-rat]
Category:
fauna: rodents
Source:
Smith & Wheeler
Page:
159
Line:
169
Respelt:
nga-rag
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 81: This animal is not very common. It somettimes getss into the Houses and live on Corn of every kind, it oproves very destructive to Indian Corn. It sometimes burrows into the ground but 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 geneally has two young ones.