Part 18 (1/2)

1886 H C Kendall, `Poems,' p 8:

”And softer than slu, The notes of the bell-bird are running and ringing”

1888 W L Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol i p 85:

”Anthornis melanura Chatham Island Bell-bird (A Melanocephala), the Bell-bird--so-called from the fanciful rese of a bell”

1889 Prof Parker, `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition,' p 119:

”Bell-bird, Korimako,or Makomako (Anthornis melanura), is still cohbourhood of Dunedin; but has al is re of the Forest,' `Review of Reviews,' Feb 1893, p 45:

”Gone are the forest birds, arboreal things, Eaters of honey, honey-sweet in song; The tui, and the bell-bird--he who sings That brief rich '

1896 G A Keartland, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,' Part II, Zoology, Aves, p 74:

”In the north they [Oreoica] are frequently called `Bell-birds,' but bear no resee, shape, or note The Oreoica is such an accomplished ventriloquist that it is difficult to find”

<hw>Bell-bottomed</hw>, adj a particular fashi+on of trouser affected by the larrikin (qv)

1891 `The Argus,' Dec 5, p 13, col 2:

”Can it be that the pernicious influence of the House is gradually tingeing the high priests of the bell-botto, Golden</hw>, n See Golden Bell-Frog

<hw>Bell-topper</hw>, n The ordinary Australian name for the tall silk-hat

1860 W Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' p 268 [Footnote]:

”Bell-topper was the derisive naers to old style hat, supposed to indicate the dandy swell”

<hw>Benjalish

1870 Chas H Allen, `A Visit to Queensland and her Goldfields,'

p 182:

”There are certain native terms that are used by the whites also as a kind of colonial slang, such as `yabber,' to talk; `budgeree,' good; `bale,' no; `yan,' to go; `cabon,' much; and so on

”With the black people a husband is now called a `benjamin,'

probably because they have no word to their own language to express this relationshi+p”

<hw>Benja in Queensland, Ficus benjarass</hw> n See Grass

1835 Ross, `Hobart Town Alinian Agrostis, or Bent-grass