448: The name Prion, as almost universally applied elsewhere to theBlue Petrels, has been kept [in Australia] as an English name. It is the largest carnivorous marsupial extant, and is so muchlike a wolf in appearance that it well deserves its vernacularname of Wolf, though now-a-days it is generally calledTiger. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. /See, rather, Bull-a-bull/1857.
over the soft warm dust in searchof the morrow's meal; so, dazzled by the unaccustomed glare, heseeks his hiding-place once more. , in `The Argus,' Dec. term in gold-mining; a vein ofauriferous quartz. The new name, from that of the Dutchnavigator, Abel Jansen Tasman, was officially adopted in 1853,when the system of transportation ceased.
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