Etymology: < an Australian Aboriginal language: bangaray in the Port Jackson dialect.
The tree-kangaroo of North Queensland, Dendrolagus lumholtzii.
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tree kangaroo1841
boongary1889
1889 R. B. Anderson tr. C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals xviii. 227 Upon the whole, the boongary is the most beautiful mammal I have seen in Australia.
1965 E. TroughtonFurred Animals Austral. (ed. 8) 175 The blacks concluded the Boongary never drank.
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