historical derivation of common name of noisy miner

["Cas Liber" <>]

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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