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g'day all,
To divert away from Syd and Tony's thread but to continue on
from John Leonard's note re origin of the name Jabiru
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Another interesting name is the EMU.
It is not an Australian name but comes from
Arabia.
It may be summarised as a corruption of the word "Na-amah"
pronounced "na ema" for the Ostrich
My source is J.D.McDonald's well researched paper in Qld
Ornithological Societies (now Birds Qld) "The Sunbird", Vol 16, No. 3,
Sept 1986, pages 68 - 72. An abbreviated version is included in his "Illustrated
Dictionary of Australian Birds by Common Name"
If anyone is interested I could OCR copy the paper into a Word
document and email it to anyone interested.
Regards, Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW Qld.
ps I prefer and use Jabiru to B-n S
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