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The New Zealanders assert that thisextraordinary bird was in existence in the days of theirancestors, and was finally destroyed by their grandfathers. Kangaroo-Dog(q. The peculiar chirp of this lively little bird isyet to be heard among the tall fern, though it is not soplentiful as in days gone by. Officer, Private Letter: In the valley of the Murray between Swan Hill and Wentworth,in the summer time during

[At Endeavour River, Queensland. Such as the swagmen in our goodly land Have with some humour named the `post-and-rail. 433: The dead bodies are burnt or buried, though some in NorthAustralia place the corpse in the paper bark of the tea-tree,and deposit it in a hollow tree. See under Palm.