Part 51 (1/2)

`Frohbourhood of Menindie, it is often called Menindie-clover' It is the `Australian sharant, clover-like plant is a good pasture herb”

<hw>Clover-Tree</hw>, n a Tasmanian tree, called also Native Laburnun See under Laburnum

<hw>Coach</hw>, n a bullock used as a decoy to catch wild cattle This seems to be from the use of coach as the University term for a private tutor

1874 W H L Ranken, `Doet them [sc wild cattle] a party of stockmen take a small herd of quiet cattle, `coaches'”

<hw>Coach</hw>, v to decoy wild cattle or horses with tame ones

1874 W H L Ranken, `Dominion of Australia,' c vi p 121:

”Here he [the wild horse] ' like wild cattle”

<hw>Coach-whip Bird</hw>, n Psophodes crepitans, V and H (see Gould's `Birds of Australia,' vol iii pl 15); Black-throated CB, P nigrogularis, Gould Called also Whipbird and Coachors and Horsfield, `Transactions of Linnaean Society,'

vol xv p 330:

”This bird is more often heard than seen It inhabits bushes

The loud cracking whip-like noise it ive it the nareat distance”

1827 P Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol ii

p 158:

”If you should hear a coachwhip crack behind, you may instinctively start aside to let the mail pass; but quickly find it is only our native coach and cracking out his whip-like notes as he hops sprucely from branch to branch”

1844 Mrs Meredith, `Notes and Sketches of New South Wales,'

p 137:

”Another equally singular voice a our feathered friends was that of the `coachman,' than which no title could beclear whistle, with a smart crack of the whip to finish with”

1845 R Howitt, `Australia,' p 177:

”The bell-bird, by the river heard; The whip-bird, which surprised I hear, In me have powerful memories stirred Of other scenes and strains s than these afford, The thrush and blackbird warbling clear”

--Old Impressions

1846 G H Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p 71:

”The coach-whip is a small bird about the size of a sparrow, found near rivers It derives its name from its note, a slow, clear whistle, concluded by a sharp jerking noise like the crack of a whip”

1855 W Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol ii p 76:

”The whip-bird, whose sharp wiry notes, even, are farof diggers”

1881 A C Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol i p 24:

”That is the coach-whip bird There again