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Ring-tail, or Ring-tailed Opossum, n. p, 278: The natives tell me that it [the ground-parrot] chieflybreeds in a stump of a small White Gum-tree. ot, a reference to your files would show that it was first inthe `Argus' the word appeared in print. Yellow-plumed H.

28: The wallabee is not very common. See Mapau. e; and received from thenatives some of their dried narcotic herbs, which they chew,called pitchery. `Your grace, we call that thelaughing jackass in this country, but I don't know thebotanical [sic] name of the bird.