1: From the trees sounds the shrill chirp of large green cicada(native cads as the bushmen call them). 481: Charley shot a Wallooroo just as it was leaping, frightenedby our footsteps, out of its shady retreat to a pointed rock. (Gilbert Parker,Glossary to `Round the Compass in Australia,' 1888. Bracebridge Wilson says it iscalled Marble-fish in the Geelong district.
Burton, `Anatomy of Melancholy' (edition 1854), p. 191: Perhaps some old woman did a quiet tangi over his grave. Barry, `Up and Down,' p. chloropsis, Gould, Swan River H.
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