The word is not Australian, though itis generally so reckoned. Smith, `Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,'vol. Ring, v. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol.

Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. He began by killing and eating his aboriginalcongener, and then made it more difficult than ever to keepanything eatable out of reach of his teeth. Leguminosae), or Kaka-bill(q. , Slender-billedSpine-bill.