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.»