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It isvery tame, sits still to be petted, and screams like a parrot. ' The Sydney blacks modulated this cry with successiveinflexions; the Tasmanian uttered it with less art. 24: The Tappa, or native cloth [of Fiji], made from the bark of atree. See Mountain-Trout.

scientific name for the genus ofAustralian birds called Cat-birds (q. the dried juice, of sweet taste,obtained from incisions in the bark of various trees. ); and sometimesto the Swamp-Hen (q. If the word, or anything likeit, such as Maoria, was used earlier, it meant theMaori parts of New Zealand.