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historical derivation of common name of noisy miner

To: Cas Liber <>
Subject: historical derivation of common name of noisy miner
From: Dave Torr <>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:44:16 +1100
When I went to the Wikipedia home page to search for Noisy Miner (as the
link did not initially seem to work - I think it was just rather slow) I
discovered the "Featured Article" was the Variegated Fairy-wren!

On 21 January 2012 08:12, Cas Liber <> wrote:

> I suppose it arose out of the bird's dark grey and black face resembling a
> coal-miner's blackened face (?) but have never seen it written, apart from
> gould's notes that the term "miner" came from Tasmania originally. Anyone
> seen anything written? Also for such a common bird, I've not seen much
> aboriginal material, either names or folklore about it....
>
> A couple of us have been developing the Wikipedia page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_Miner
>
>
> Cas
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