an aboriginal name for theLyre-bird (q.v.). This native name is imitative. The mostsoutherly county in Victoria is called Buln-Buln; it isthe haunt of the Lyre-bird.
1857. D. Bunce, `Travels with Leichhardt in Australia,' p. 70:
«We afterwards learned that this was the work of the BullenBullen, or Lyre-bird, in its search for large worms, itsfavourite food.»
1871. `The Athenaeum,' May 27, p. 660:
«The Gipps Land and Murray districts have been divided into thefollowing counties: . . . Buln Buln (name of Lyre-bird).»