pongo

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

n.


aboriginal name for the Flying-Squirrel (q.v.).

1888. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 149:

«Then an old 'possum would sing out, or a black-furredflying-squirrel – – pongos, the blacks call `em – – would come sailingdown from the top of an ironbark tree, with all his stern sailsspread, as the sailors say, and into the branches of another,looking as big as an eagle-hawk.»

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