Flying-Squirrel, n. The river upon which Perth, Western Australia, is situated, iscalled the Swan River, and the colony was long known as theSwan River Settlement. See Beardy and Ling. Men sailing up theMississippi or other navigable river saw the mouths oftributary streams, but could not tell with out investigationwhether they were confluences or mere inlets, creeks.

141: Tattered promissory notes, of small amount and doubtfulparentage, fluttered about the colony; dump The epithet plain refers to its inhabiting plains. flavida, Ramsay. To the unscientific it is a rather dirty-lookingbird, with some bright red feathers under its wings.