v. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery
and Exploration of Australia,' vol. ii. p. 18:

"Eyre succeeded in shooting a fine wallaby."

[Note]: "A small kind of kangaroo, inhabiting the scrub."

1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' c. vii.
p. 117:

"I have also been frowned upon by bright eyes because I could
not eat stewed wallabi. Now the wallabi is a little kangaroo,
and to my taste it is not nice to eat even when stewed to the
utmost with wine and spices."

1880. Garnet Watch, `Victoria in 1880,' p. 7:

"To hear . . . that wallabies are `the women of the native
race' cannot but be disconcerting to the well-regulated
colonial mind." [He adds a footnote]: "It is on record that a
journalistically fostered impression once prevailed, to high
English circles, to the effect that a certain colonial Governor
exhibited immoral tendencies by living on an island in the
midst of a number of favourite wallabies, whom he was known
frequently to caress."

188x. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 213:

"Now one hears the pat-pat-pat of a wallaby."

1885. J. B. Stephens, `To a Black Gin,' p. 5:

"Of tons of 'baccy, and tons more to follow,--
Of wallaby as much as thou could'st swallow,--
Of hollow trees, with 'possums in the hollow."

1886. J. A. Froude, `Oceana,' p. 309:

"My two companions . . . went off with the keeper [sic] to
shoot wallaby. Sir George (Grey) has a paternal affection for
all his creatures, and hates to have them killed. But the
wallaby multiply so fast that the sheep cannot live for them,
and several thousands have to be destroyed annually."

1888. Sir C. Gavan Duffy, in the `Contemporary Review,'
vol. liii. p. 3:

"`Morality!' exclaimed the colonist. `What does your lordship
suppose a wallaby to be?' `Why, a half-caste, of course.'
`A wallaby, my lord, is a dwarf kangaroo!'"

<hw>Wallaby-Bush</hw>, <i>n</i>. a tall shrub or tree,
<i>Beyeria viscosa</i>, Miq., <i>N.O. Euphorbiaceae</i>.
Same as the <i>Pinkwood</i> of Tasmania.

<hw>Wallaby-Grass</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian grass,
<i>Danthonia penicillata</i>, F. v. M., <i>N.O. Gramineae</i>.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 82:

"`Wallaby Grass.' This perennial artificial grass is useful
for mixed pasture."

<hw>Wallaby-skin</hw>, the skin, with the hair on it,
of the wallaby, prized as a warm and ornamental fur for rugs.

1890. `The Argus,' June13, p.6, col. 2: