bilirr

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Wiradjuri

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bilirr

  1. a black cockatoo
    • 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
      murrain        cockatoo  (white)
      níaran, bĭlir      “          black
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal dialect called Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
      Billir—a black cockatoo.
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