Sept. 20, p. 13, col. 5:

"Sundowners are still the plague of squatocracy, their petition
for `rashons' and a bed amounting to a demand."

1891. F. Adams, `John Webb's End,' p. 34:

"`Swagsmen' too, genuine, or only `sundowners,'--men who loaf
about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for the
unrefusable `rations.'"

1892. `Scribner's Magazine,' Feb., p. 143:

"They swell the noble army of swagmen or sundowners, who are
chiefly the fearful human wrecks which the ebbing tide of
mining industry has left stranded in Australia."

[This writer does not differentiate between <i>Swagman</i>
(q.v.) and <i>Sundowner</i>.]

1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 12, p. 8, col. 7:

"Numbers of men who came to be known by the class name of
`sundowners,' from their habit of straggling up at fall of
evening with the stereotyped appeal for work; and work being at
that hour impossible, they were sent to the travellers' hut for
shelter and to the storekeeper or cook for the pannikin of
flour, the bit of mutton, the sufficiency of tea for a brew,
which made up a ration."

1896. `Windsor Magazine,' Dec., p. 132:

"`Here,' he remarked, `is a capital picture of a Queensland
sundowner.' The picture represented a solitary figure standing
in pathetic isolation on a boundless plain. `A sundowner?' I
queried. `Yes; the lowest class of nomad. For days they will
tramp across the plains carrying, you see, their supply of
water. They approach a station only at sunset, hence the name.
At that hour they know they will not be turned away.' `Do they
take a day's work?' `Not they! There is an old bush saying,
that the sundowner's one request is for work, and his one
prayer is that be may not find it.'"

<hw>Super</hw>, <i>n</i>. short for superintendent,
sc. of a station.

1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads,' p. 23:

"What's up with our super to-night? The man's mad."

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. ix. p. 83:

"That super's a growlin' ignorant beggar as runs a feller from
daylight to dark for nothing at all."

1890. `The Argus,' June 10, p. 4, col. 1:

"He . . . bragged of how he had bested the super who tried
to `wing him' in the scrub."

<hw>Superb-Dragon</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian marine fish,
<i>Phyllopteryx foliatus</i>, Shaw. See <i>Sea-Dragon</i>.

1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' pl. 7:

"`Superb-Dragon--Phyllopteryx Foliatus.' This is one of the
`Pipe f