mongan

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


aboriginal name for the animal namedin the quotation.

1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 173:

«Jimmy, however, had, to my great delight, found mongan( Pseudochirus herbertensis), a new and very prettymammal, whose habitat is exclusively the highest tops of thescrubs in the Coast Mountains.»