rings among Gum-trees,' p. 86:

"'Tis there the `blackbut' rears its head."

1894. `Melbourne Museum Catalogue, Economic Woods,' p. 30:

"A tree of considerable size. . . The bark smooth and falling
off in flakes upward, and on the branches."

1897. `The Age,' Feb. 22, p. 5, col. 3:

"Mr. Richards stated that the New South Wales black butt and
tallow wood were the most durable and noiseless woods for
street-paving, as well as the best from a sanitary point of
view."

<hw>Black-Cod</hw>, <i>n</i>. a New Zealand fish, <i>Notothenia
angustata</i>.

<hw>Blackfellow</hw>, <i>n</i>. an aboriginal Australian.

1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discovery in Australia,' i. 4, 74:

"The native Miago . . . appeared delighted that these `black
fellows,' as he calls them, have no throwing sticks."

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 9:

"The well-known tracks of blackfellows are everywhere visible."

1871. Dingo, `Australian Rhymes,' p. 14:

"Wurragaroo loved Wangaraday
In a blackfellow's own peculiar way."

<hw>Black-Fern</hw>, <i>n</i>. The Tasmanian species so called
is <i>Athyrium australe</i>, Presl., <i>N.O. Polypodeae</i>.

<hw>Black-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. The name is given, especially in
Sydney, to the sea-fishes <i>Girella simplex</i>, Richards (see
<i>Ludrick</i>), and <i>Girella tricuspidata</i>, Cuv. and
Val.; also to a fresh-water fish all over Australia,
<i>Gadopsis marmoratus</i>, Richards. <i>G. marmoratus</i> is
very common in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and
parts of Tasmania. There are local varieties. It is much
esteemed as a food fish, but is, like all mud fishes, rich and
oily. <i>Girella</i> belongs to the family <i>Sparida</i>, or
Sea-Breams, and <i>Gadopsis</i> to the <i>Gadopsidae</i>, a
family allied to that containing the Cod fishes. The name was
also formerly applied to a whale.

1853. C. St. Julian and E. K. Silvester, `Productions,
Industry, and Resources of New South Wales,' p. 115:

"There is a species of whale called by those engaged in the
south sea fishing the <i>Black-fish</i> or <i>Black-whale</i>,
but known to the naturalist as the Southern Rorqual, which the
whalemen usually avoid."

1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 100

"Nothing is better eating than a properly cooked black-fish.
The English trout are annihilating them, however."

<hw>Black-Line</hw>. See <i>Black-War</i>.

<hw>Black-Perch</hw>, <i>n.</i> a river fish of New South W