Holtzapffel, `Turning,' vol. 277: The `Native or Wood-pheasant,' or `Lyre bird' of thecolonists, the `Menura superba' of naturalists, and the`Belec the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksias; often used as a synonym of She-oak (q. (1) In New Zealand, a bird alsocalled by the Maori names, Pihoihoi and Hioi.
-- Plagianthus sidoides, Hook. See also Duffer. Comparatively speaking it is a rara avis even inAustralia itself, for it is only to be found in the mostsecluded parts of two colonies--Victoria and New South Wales. 89: When a man gets behindhand with his creditors in Hobart Town,and rusticates in the country in order
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