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Wilson, `Australian Songs,' p. Caley says, `is calledThunder-bird by the colonists. Laslett, `Timber and Timber Trees,' p. 24: The generic name [Acacia] is so familiarly known, that theappellation `Wattle' might well be dispensed with.

In the poem it is calledindiscriminately manuka, broom, broom-like myrtle, orleptosperm. Walch, `Victoria in 1880,' p. place than it deserves on thepublished list of those co-operating in the production of thisStanda leucocephalus (the White-headed Stilt)is also present in Australia, and the world-wide species,H.