Fw: [BIRDING-AUS] Rosehill & Rosellas

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From:	"Bob Forsyth" <>
Date:	Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:24:59 +1000

G'day all,

More info ! I was wrong !!

The bird was named after the suburb, which was named after G.Rose esq.

I quote from J.D.Macdonald's "Australian Birds, by Common Name, 1987"

From Rose-Hill ... where early colonists named local bird rose-hill parakeet (and other popular names) adopted by Gould

... These other names included rose-hill, rose-hiller, rose-hill parakeet, rose-hill parrot.

So, G.Rose esq. by default had a bird named after him.

Regards from
Bob Forsyth
Mount Isa, NW Qld.

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