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359: Called `Blackwood' on account of the very dark colour of themature wood. the orthodox material here is of course kangaroo,a piece of which is divided nicely into cutlets two or threeinches broad and a third of an inch thick. Indeed ourwattles might far more appropriately be called gum-trees thanthe eucalypts, because the former e Called boree by aboriginals, andoften boree, or silver-leaf boree, by the colonists of WesternNew South Wales.

This is Seriola lalandii, Cuv. , or Scorpis hectori, Hutton. name given in Tasmania toa marine univalve mollusc, either Elenchus badius,or E. scientific name of the genusof the Australian birds called the Red-throats;from Grk.