Cayley’s “What bird is that” also has a lot of alternate names.
Also Ian Fraser & Jeannie Gray’s book Australian Bird Names. Although in
each case, you would need to start by knowing the current name of something you
suspect it may be and then see if your unknown alternative is given under that.
About short billed crow, Philippines has 2 species called
Large-billed & Slender –billed Crow. Could be a connection of association
of names, I am not imagining those species. Slander is probably slender.
Philip
From: Birding-Aus
[ On Behalf Of Gary Wright
Sent: Tuesday, 28 April, 2020 8:44 AM
To: Terrill Nordstrom
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Old bird names
A place to look could be Graham Pizzey's field
guide to birds of Australia if you can get hold of one of the old ones,
illustrated by Roy Doyle where the plates were still in the middle.
There is a wealth of alternative names in there , names i grew up with
and still love. finding your birds could be a long process even if they
are there, as naturally they are not indexed. With the Illawarra
list and what you have already you may be able to narrow it down. For
example, there are different names from what John has provided from McDonald's
so the names you are after could be tucked away in there somewhere.
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 23:22, Terrill Nordstrom <>
wrote:
In my isolation confinement I have been doing some research
on Margaret Menzies who lived in the Jamberoo region of N.S.W. from 1839 till
1860. She was a lover of birds and recorded the birds in the area.
Unfortunately her journal has been lost and all that has survived is a two page
list. This list has only old common names of birds and a number of these names
I am having trouble in identifying. I am hoping that someone out in the birding
world may have some Idea on which birds she was referring to. The bird names
are listed as;
Swallows, Blue billed or spotted Swallow
Thrushes, Ant or short billed crow, Blue
Flycatchers, White fronted, Black throated, Fantailed
Slander billed Honeyeater
Parrots, Blue, buff and yellow grass, Crimson fronted
paroquet, Green beaked paroquet.
Pigeons, Emerald amaranth (she had listed green dove also)
she also listed ground hen (she also had lyrebird and brush turkey so I am not
sure what a ground hen is. All of the birds were recorded in the Illawarra
region. Thanks and good luck in working them out. Regards Terrill
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