172: The settlers designate the old kangaroos as `old men' and`old women;' the full-grown animals are named `flyers,' and areswifter than the British hare. 27: As a rule, diamond snakes have almost every scale of the bodymarked with a yellow spot in the centre. Domett, `Ranolf,' v. 40: Hiring men in Melbourne in 1841 was not by any means anagreeable job, as wages were high, and labourers (almost allold gaol-birds and expiree convicts) exceedingly independentand rowdy.
--Phalanger, Trichosurus,Pseudochirus, Petauroides, Dactylopsila,Petaurus, Gymnobelideus, Dromicia, Acrobates. (thelatter, the commoner), an ex-convict who has served out hissentence. 184: For this, midst Austral wilds I waken Our British harp, feel whence I come,Queen of the sea, too long forsaken,Queen of the soul, my spirit's home. Golden-shouldered P.
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