De Vis saysthat his first statement was made on the authority of aprivate correspondent; but another correspondent writes fromCooktown, that the blacks there have taken Kangaroo fromEnglish. Wild Rosemary, n. ead of being perhaps some hundreds of miles in theinterior, and would dream of salt water, perriwinkl worksamong the tailings of old gold-mines for what may be left.
Wood Natives, or Wood Savages, obsolete namesfor the Australian aborigines. -- Nycticorax caledonicus, Lath. In New Zealand, it isVitex littoralis; Maori name, Puriri (q. -Tea-tree-- See Tea-tree.