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Spicer, `Handbook of the Plants ofTasmania,' p. This bird seems to be peculiar to New Holland. The waterthus sweetened was greedily swallowed by the natives. 28: Of berries and fruits of which they partook, the principalwere those of Solanum laciniatum, or kangaroo-apple,when dead ripe.

There are about twenty species,mostly of Africa, several of India, one of Australia, and threeproperly European. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 431: An animal named a wombat, about the size of a smallturnspit-dog, has been found in abundance in Van Diemen's Land,and also, though less frequently, in other parts of New SouthWales. The term`squatter,' as applied to the class it now designates--withoutwhich where would Australia now be?--was not in vogue till1842.