scientific name of a genusof birds peculiar to Australia, and represented there by twospecies. 37: The squeal and chirp of the flying squirrel. 32: When the real `sundowner' haunts these banks for a season, heis content with a black pannikin, a clasp knife, and a platterwhittled out of primaeval bark. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), c.
blows, they pierce it, and at the same time carry intothe puncture the black composition, which leaves an indeliblestain. 432: The oumu or haangi, in which food was cooked, was onlya hole scooped in the ground, of a size proportioned to thatwhich was to be cooked. His terrible wife, if we may borrow a phrase from Australia,`had the drop on him' in every particular. 6: Cashed by the nearest publican, who of course never handedover a cent.
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