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See Gerygone. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 29: Leehan presents an animated scene . 1: If the creature was lovely its beauty was marketable andfatal--and the lyre-bird was pursued to its last retreats andinveigled to death, so that its feathers might be peddled inour streets.

323: I feared he might imagine we were afraid of his incantations,for he sang most lamentable corroborris. It seemsuncivil to a whole nation--another injustice to Ireland--tocall a bramble a wild Irishman, or a pointed grass, with theedges very sharp and the point like a bayonet, a Spaniard. Various friends kindly contributedmore quotations: and this Book is the result. 8: The partridge-pigeon (Geophaps scripta) abounded in theAcacia groves.