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Severalcorrespondents have written that the word Kangaroo meant I don't understand, and that Banks mistook this for a name. 289there is a further note on the kanguroo. The timber, which is hard,gives forth an oily substance: hence the name. Charles Thorn, ofQueensland, placed a lamb which had become an `indigo-eater' ina small paddock, where it refused to eat grass.

See quotation. Yellow-billed S. 554: When previously mentioning the elegant Stylidiumgraminifolium (grass-leaved Jack-in-a-box), wh Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol.