The wood is soft, and used by theaborigines for making their `heilamans,' or shields. Silver, struck out of its Centre, should be current within thisTerritory, and every part thereof, for the Sum of FiveShillings. ') Theyare singing-birds, and are called Thickheads (q. Leichhardt used aspecies of Atriplex as a vegetable, and spoke veryhighly of it.
Theyresemble pigs, and the flesh tastes somewhat like pork. It was a bird of limited powers offlight, akin to the New Zealand bird, Notornis mantilliwhich is also approaching extinction. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition, p. 80: Podiceps australis, Gould; Australian Tippet Grebe;Diver of the Colonists.
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