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White-eyebrowedSpine-bill. is said to be very common now inthe Winmera district. White-browed R. common English bird-name.

73: One day an egg of a cassowary was brought to me; this bird,although it is nearly akin to the ostrich and emu, does not,like the latter, frequent the open plains, but the thickbrushwood. Flooded Gum--1847. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. The stem abounds in a mucilaginous substance resembling puretragacanth, which is wholesome and nutritious, and is said tobe used as an article of food by the aborigines in cases ofextreme need.