wallaby
Language:
Australian:
Bag-ga-ree
English JS Main:
wallaby
English:
"The Native Name Bag-ga-ree, or a species of Kangaroo."
The drawing is unsigned and undated.
"This Animal was run down by Grey Hounds and the only one of the colour seen; it differs from the Pattegorang or Kangaroo a little in the shape of the Head and in the form of the Ears, but in nothing so much as in the Tail, which has the Hair longer near the tip than in any other part - The hinder parts are not so much out of all proportion to the fore parts as in the Kangaroo - I take it to be a kind of mixed Genus between that Animal and some other, per= haps the Kangaroo Rat, I was led to this conclusion because it was found near a Brush or low woody swampy place where the Kangaroo Rats mostly frequent - Governor Phillips has taken home the Skin and Bones of the Head -". After this, in paler ink and another hand, is written "Native name Bag-ga-ree".
The animal has more recently been identified as the Swamp Wallaby, Wallabia bicolor, by John Calaby in Wheeler and Smith (1988).
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category:
fauna: mammals
Sub-category:
kangaroo
Source:
Smith & Wheeler
Page:
167
Line:
178
Respelt:
baga-ri
Part of speech:
noun
Meaning Clue:
"Bag-ga-ree" bagari = ""The Native Name Bag-ga-ree, or a species of Kangaroo."--" wallaby swamp: Smith & Wheeler [:167:178] [BB]
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 88: This anomal was run down by Grey Hounds ... [plus several lines of description]