its wings were edged with white: the bill wastinged with red. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. The followingare the trees to which the name is applied in Australia:--Bastard Pencil Cedar-- Dysoxylon rfum, Benth. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p.
The birds scratch up heaps of soil and vegetable matter, inwhich they bury their eggs and leave them to be hatched by theheat of decomposition. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 189: Some resembling the whaddie, or wooden sword of the natives ofPort Jackson. --Short-glumed-- P.
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