Part 33 (1/2)

1892 Gilbert Parker, `Round the Colare of a hard and pitiless sky overhead, the infinite vista of saltbush, brigalow, stay-a-while, and a, the creeks only stretches of stone, and no shelter froums”

<hw>Brill</hw>, n a small and very bony rhomboidal fish of New Zealand, Pseudorhombus scaphus, family Pleuronectidae The true Brill of Europe is Rhombus levis

<hw>Brisbane Daisy</hw>, n See Daisy, Brisbane

<hw>Bristle-bird</hw>, n a naiven to certain Australian Reed-warblers They are--Sphenura brachyptera, Lathairostris, Gould; Rufous-headed B--S broadbentii, McCoy See Sphenura

1827 Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of Linnaean Society,'

vol xv p 232:

”He (Mr Caley) calls it in his notes `Bristle Bird'”

<hw>Broad-leaf</hw>, n a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori na Materials of Otago,' p 155:

”There are few trees in the [Otago] bush so conspicuous or so well known as the broad-leafIt grows to a height of fifty or sixty feet, and a diameter of from three to six; the bark is coarse and fibrous, and the leaves a beautiful deep green of great brilliancy”

1879 J B Ar, `Transactions of New Zealand Institute,' vol xii Art 49, p 328:

”The broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis) is abundant in the district [of Banks' Peninsula], and produces a hard red wood of a durable nature”

1882 T H Potts, `Out in the Open,' p 103:

”The rough trunks and limbs of the broadleaf”

<hw>Broker</hw>, n Australian slang for a man completely ruined, stonebroke

1891 `The Australasian,' Nov 21, p 1014:

”We're nearly `dead brokers,' as they say out here Let's harness up Eclipse and go over to old Ya</hw>, n a bird with a lustrous shoulder, Phaps chalcoptera, Lath Called also Bronze-wing Pigeon

1790 J White, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p 145:

”One of the gold-winged pigeons, of which a plate is annexed

[Under plate, Golden-winged Pigeon] This bird is a curious and singular species re , in various reflections of light, to green and copper-bronze, and when the wing is closed, for two bars of the same across it”

1832 J Bischoff, `Van Dieeons are by far the most beautiful birds in the island; they are called bronze-winged pigeons”

1857 W Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol ii p 57:

”Mr Fitzpatrick followed his kangaroo hounds, and shot his es”