A beautifully markedwood much used for making walking sticks. 283: We discovered a nest of full-fledged birds of the AustralianShrike or Butcher-bird, also called Rain-bird by the colonists(Vanga destructor).
a word of North-American Indianorigin, applied in English to the similarly shaped shortone-handed axe or hatchet. -- Psephotus multicolor, Temm. I do not know what abotanist would call them; they are something like cane, butwith large leaves, which all animals are fond of, and they growabout eight feet high in the creeks and gullies. 132: `Here,' he remarked, `is a capital picture of a Queenslandsundowner.
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