The name is given elsewhere to other fishes. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the Nameof Botany Bay. Maori name of a New Zealand tree;also called Celery-topped Pine, Phyllocladustrichomanoides, Don. of New Zealand-- Cyathea medullaris, Sw.
does not appear to havebeen noticed as far north as Sydney. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 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. 181: He took them but a little way from where they had camped, anddisclosed in the hillside what looked like a good-sized wombator rabbit-hole.
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