Part 17 (1/2)

”They seemed to be covered with cypresses and beef-wood”

1846 C Holtzapffel, `Turning,' vol i p 74:

”Beef wood Red-coloured woods are soenerally applied to the Botany-Bay oak”

1852 G C Munday, `Our Antipodes' (edition 1855), p 219:

”A shi+ngle of the beef-wood looks precisely like a raw beef-steak”

1856 Capt H Butler Stoney, `A Residence in Tasmania,' p 265:

”We now turn our attention to some trees of a very different nature, Casuarina stricta and quadrivalvis, commonly called He and She oak, and sometimes known by the name of beef-wood, froh polish, exhibiting peculiar hout a finely striated tint ”

1868 Paxton's `Botanical Dictionary,' p 116:

”Casuarinaceae,or Beefwoods Curious branching, leafless trees or shrubs, with tih order, which is both hard and heavy, and of the colour of raw beef, whence the vulgar name”

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants' (See `Index of vernacular nas, Belah, billa, beela, beal), an aboriginal nalauca The colonists call the tree Bull-oak, probably from this native name

1862 H C Kendall, `Poeroild in its wail”

1868 J A B, `Meta,' p 19:

”With heartfelt glee we hail the cainal naum-tree wood”

1874 W H L Ranken, `Dominion of Australia,' c vi p 110:

”These scrubssometimes crown the watersheds as `belar'”

<hw>Bell-bird</hw>, n na of a bell In Australia, a Honey-eater, Myzantha melanophrys, Gould ('Birds of Australia,' vol iv pl 80), the `Australian Bell-bird' (the same bird as Myzantha flavirostris, V and H), chiefly found in New South Wales; also Oreoica gutturalis, Gould (vol ii pl 81), the `Bell-bird' of Western Australia; and Oreoica cristata, Lewin In New Zealand, Anthornis melanura, Sparrm, chief Maori names, Korimako (qv) in North, and Makoives ten Maori names The settlers call it Moko (qv)

There is also a Bell-bird in Brazil

1774 J Haorth, `Voyages,' vol ii p 390 [Journal of Jan 17, 1770):

”In theof the birds; the number was incredible, and they seemed to strain their throats in emulation of each other This wild melody was infinitely superior to any that we had ever heard of the same kind; it seemed to be like small bells most exquisitely tuned, and perhaps the distance, and the water between, e to the sound Upon enquiry ere infor about two hours aftertheir ales, silent the rest of the day”

[This celebrated descriptive passage by Dr Haorth is based upon the following original from `Banks's Journal,' which now, after an interval of 122 years, has just been published in London, edited by Sir J D Hooker]

1770 J Banks, `Journal,' Jan 17 (edition 1896):

”I akened by the singing of the birds ashore, from whence we are distant not a quarter of a reat They seemed to strain their throats with emulation, and made, perhaps, thesinable, to which,of our people, I was told that they had observed the about one or two in the , and continue till sunrise, after which they are silent all day, like our nightingales”

1802 G Barrington, `History of New South Wales,'

c viii p 84: