The genuine or black sirocco (as it is called)blows from a point between south-east and south-south-east. Thus it is that themenura has earned for itself the title of the Australianmocking-bird. the scientific name of the genusof the Kangaroo-Rats (q. ikin, Swagman,Billy, Free-selector, Boundary-rider, Black-tracker,Back-blocks, Clear-skin, Dummyism, Bushed.
`The Argus,' March 28, p. 1: Grass-trees and the brown brake-fern, whips of native cherry,and all the threads and tangle of the earth's green russ a tangled bush; sometimescalled Wait-a-while (q. SeeJump.
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