The wordis also used adjectivally. The marsupial animal, frequent allover Australia, which is called an Opossum, is aPhalanger (q. common English name for a sea-bird. O'Halloran, Secretary Royal Colonial Institute,apud Barrere and Leland: The Never, Never Country m
In New Zealand andTasmania, it is applied to Genypterus blacodes, Forst. According to Dr. very recent New Zealand slang. scientific name for a genusof birds belonging to the Cuculidae, or Cuckoos (fromGrk.
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