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McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. See under Nut. It is attributed to monotony of diet and to the cloudlessclimate, with its alternations of extreme cold at night andburning heat by day.

--Fagus blairii, T. )Drongo, n. ndigenous to the north-western portion of thecolony, and to Riverina; it has a fine wavy grain, consequentlyeasily worked when in a green state. Maori name for the Creator of man, andthence taken to represent an ancestor.