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Tench, `Expedition to Botany Bay,' p. The swamp-pheasant has not the family weakness ofthe cuckoo, for it does not lay its eggs in the nests of otherbirds. They seated themselves in ranks in one of thecourtyards of the pa, stripped to the waist. --We found two sorts of gum, one sort of which is likegum dragon, and is the same, I suppose, Tasman took for gumlac; it is extracted from the largest tree in the woods.

(2) Geocincla, the Ground-Thrushes (q. The name is also given to Swainsonia Greyana,Lindl. In Sir George Grey's Glossary (1840), Djar-rail;Mr. Sterculiaceae.