Rosehill & Rosellas - correction

["Bob Forsyth" <>]

G'day all,

 

Thank you everybody for correcting me, again & again & again.

I had a touch of old-timers disease and did not write what I intended to say.

 

I posted a correction only 27 minutes later at 10.25am, which some list-members apparently have not received.

 

It said >>>

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.

 

Please .. no more corrections .. I have got the message.

 

Regards from
Bob Forsyth
Mount Isa, NW Qld.