Part 293 (1/2)

”Taking with him, therefore, on board the Port Phillip, presents of spears, woet froines of Victoria and Riverina,'

p 48:

”Spears all ready shi+pped, that is, having the hook of the Wo-stick) placed in the small cavity made for that purpose in the end of the spear, with both raised in readiness for launching at the object”

1892 J Fraser, `Aborigines of New South Wales,' p 73:

”The `womara' is an instru, and a little thicker than a spear Unlike the spear, it is not thrown at the enemy in battle, but remains always in the black man's handhe ornaments it profusely, back and frontThe point is turned up, exactly like the point of a lady's crochet needle

The spears have a dimpled hole worked in their butt end, which hole receives the point of the hook end of the `throw-stick'”

<hw>Worm-Snake</hw>, n See under Snake

<hw>Wrasse</hw>, n This English naiven, in New Zealand, to Labrichthys bothryocosmus, Richards Called also Poddly, Spotty, and Kelp-fish

<hw>Wreck-fish</hw>, n The Australian species is Polyprion ceruleum, family Percoidae Guenther says that the European species has the habit of acco wood Hence the nalish bird-naenera, viz--

Banded Wren-- Malurus splendens, Quoy and Gaim

Black-backed W-- M melanotus, Gould

Blue W-- M cyaneus, Lath

Blue-breasted W-- M pulcherrimus, Gould

Bower's W-- M cruentatus, Gould

Chestnut-ru and Hors

Emu-wren (qv)-- Stipiturus oyderi, Gould

Grass W-- A textilis, Quoy and Gaie-tailed Grass W-- A ouldii, Sharpe

Lovely W-- M ae-backed W-- Mand Hors

Purple-crowned W-- M coronatus, Gould

Red-rued W-- Malurus elegans, Gould

Silvery Blue W-- M cyanochlamys, Gould

Striated Grass W-- Amytis striatus, Gould; called also the Porcupine bird (qv)