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78: This genus, which at present consists but of a single speciesand its supposed varieties, is distinguished by the title ofPlatypus or Ornithorhynchus. , calledKookoobal by the aborigines of the Murrumbidgee, andPundy by those of the Lower Murray. Shaw, `Zoological Lectures,' vol. 62: We journeyed .

: With scowl indignant flashing from his eye, As though to wither each unshaven wretch, Jack jogs along, nor condescends reply, As to the price his cabbage-tree might fetch. Then began the grand corrobory, and all the menjoined in the dance, leaping, jumping, bounding about in themost violent manner, but always The birds scratch up heaps of soil and vegetable matter, inwhich they bury their eggs and leave them to be hatched by theheat of decomposition. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p.