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143: The sharp guttural noises of opossums. 4: On the very day of their arrival they got a lessonin pan-washing. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. Lesser Brown F.

The name Lyre-bird apparently began between 1828 and1834. Caley says, `is called yellow-robin by thecolonists. he ground, and thicklyinterlaced with the tough, lithe wattle-branches, so as to makea strong basket-work aboriginal name for the bird called by Gould the WarblingGrass-parrakeet; called also Shell-parrot andZebra- Grass-parrakeet.