bush-magpie

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


an Australian bird, morecommonly called a Magpie (q.v.).

1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. ii. p. 235:

«. . . the omnipresent bush-magpie. Here he may warble all theday long on the liquid, mellifluous notes of his Doric flute,fit pipe indeed for academic groves . . . sweetest and brightest,most cheery and sociable of all Australian birds.»

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