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Paterson, `Man from Snowy River,' p. (2) Centre-fronds of afern. It is verycurious in its actions. Not originally an Australianapplication.

160: The dark selvage of casuarinas fringing its bank. This bird used frequentlyto come into some green wattle-trees near my house, and in wetweather was very noisy; from which circumstance it obtained thename of `Rain-bird. Meredith calls it Tortoise-shell Fishfrom its colour, when figuring it in `Tasmanian Friends andFoes' under its former scientific name of CheironectesPolitus. Taipo, n.