Item 02: 'Aboriginal words and names - Lower Clarence River Dialect, compiled by Robert Leycester Dawson', September 1935 - Page 5

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Birds

A bird (general name) Jee-bin

Aquatic

Black swan Nah-rah-gun
Goose (magpie or pied) Eenah-moorin
Black duck Eelah-wull
Musk duck Dee-rin-dun
Redbill (or red lagged water hen) Ee-lah-wee
Coot Goo-roo-woon
Crane  Bah-rarl-wull

Brush, or scrub, Birds.

Turkey (brush) Woo-roo-win
Wong pigeon Woo-roo-gul
Regent bird Ulgah-reegah
Lyre bird Jar-win Ulgah-reegah
Black Magpie  T'chal-wong 

Open Country Birds

Native companion (Brolga) Boo-rat- /gum
Crow Wah-gun
Laughing Jackass  Ah-goo-um
White Cockatoo Eewhy-ee-yarrah
Black do Ah-nin Nah-nin
 Parrot (king) Pooree-pooree
parrot (rosella) Nah-nin
Parrot (blue mountain) Um-bah-rin
Parrot (green leek) Illee-lin-gan

 

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