47: The glucking-bird and the barking-owl were heard throughoutthe moonlight night. New ZealandCreeper. trans. One of the sports of the neighbourhood is `mutton-birding.
It is a thievish bird, greedy after everything that glistens;it frequently carries off spoons, forks, and the like, but italso breaks into hen-coops, and picks and sucks the eggs. `The Argus,' Aug. ) See 26. 135: Rubus Australis, the thorny strings of which scratchthe hands and face, and which the colonists, therefore, verywittily call the `bush-lawyer.
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