Part 39 (1/2)

<hw>Burramundi</hw>, or <hw>Barralossulossidae, found in the Dawson and Fitzroy Rivers, Queensland The nae tidal perch of the Fitzroy River, Queensland, Lates calcarifer, Guenth, a widely distributed fish in the East Indies, and to Ceratodus forsteri, Krefft, family Sirenidae, of the Mary and Burnett Rivers, Queensland Burrainal na barramunda is due to the influence of barracouta (qv) See Perch

1873 A Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,'

vol i p 189:

”There is a fish too at Rockhahtly,--which is very commendable”

1880 Guenther, `Study of Fishes,' p 357:

”CeratodusTwo species, C forsteri and C miolepis, are known from fresh-waters of QueenslandLocally the settlers call it `flathead,'

`Burnett or Dawson salines `barraescaled fresh-water fishes, as the Osteoglossum leichhardtiiThe discovery of Ceratodus does not date farther back than the year 1870”

1882 W Macleay, `Descriptive Catalogue of Australian fishes'

('Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales,'

vol vi p 256):

”Osteoglossuines of the Dawson River”

1892 Baldwin Spencer, `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria,' vol iv [Note on the habits of Ceratodus forsterii]

”It has two common names, one of which is the `Burnett Salmon'

and the other the `Barramunda”the latter nameis properly applied to a very different forlossum leichhardtii) which is foundfurther northin the Dawson and FitzroyMr Saville Kent states that the Ceratodus is much prized as food This is a mistake, for, as a matter of fact, it is only eaten by Chinese and those who can afford to get nothing better”

<hw>Burrawang</hw>, or <han</hw>, n an Australian nut-tree, Macrozaham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol i

p 221:

”The burwan is a nutand i stream, to free it from its poisonous qualities”

1851 J Henderson, `Excursions in New South Wales,' vol ii

p 238

”The Burrohich grows in a sandy soil, and produces an inedible fruit, rese the pine-apple in appearance”

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 41:

”Burrawang nut, so called because they used to be, and are to so, NSW The nuts are relished by the aboriginals An arrowroot of very good quality is obtained froinally an Australian application ”Recent, and probably a direct adoption of the Dutch Bosch, in colonies originally Dutch” (`OED'), [quoting (1780) Forster, in `Phil Trans' lxxi 2, ”The common Bush-cat of the Cape;” and (1818) Scott, `Tapestr Chainians call it”]

”Woodland, country more or less covered with natural wood applied to the uncleared or untitled districts in the British Colonies which are still in a state of nature, or largely so, even though not wooded; and by extension to the country as opposed to the towns” (`OED')

1830 R Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p 48: