It is a honey-eater, and isalso called Poor Soldier and other names; see quotation,1848. InAustralia, it is confined to `rubbish, dirt, stuff taken outof a mine--the refuse after the vein-stuff is taken away'(Brough Smyth's `Glossary'). ) gives a quotation from North's `Plutarch'with the word in a slightly different shape, viz.
Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. Pheasant P.
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