flower at the top, which when in
full blossom (as it then was) is nearly the size of a small
spring cabbage."

1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 66:

"Interspersed with that magnificent shrub called warratah or
tulip-tree, and its beautiful scarlet flowers."

1857. D. Bunce, `Australasiatic Reminiscences,' p. 44:

"The most common of them was, however, the Telopia [sic]
Tasmaniensis, or waratah, or scarlet tulip tree, as it has
been occasionally termed by stock-keepers."

1864. J. S. Moore, `Spring Life Lyrics,' p. 115:

"The lily pale and waratah bright
Shall encircle your shining hair."

1883. D. B. W. Sladen, `Poetry of Exiles':

"And waratah, with flame-hued royal crown,
Proclaim the beauties round Australia's own."

1885. Wanderer, `Beauteous Terrorist,' etc., p. 62:

"And the waratahs in state,
With their queenly heads elate,
And their flamy blood-red crowns,
And their stiff-frill'd emerald gowns."

1888. D. Macdonald, I Gum Boughs,' p. 188:

"Outside the tropical Queensland forests, the scarlet flowering
gum of Western Australia, and the Waratah, of Blue Mountains
fame, are its [i.e. the wattle's] only rivals."

1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 5, p. 9, col. 1:

"The memory of many residents runs back to the time when the
waratah and the Christmas-bush, the native rose and fuchsia,
grew where thickly-peopled suburbs now exist. . . . The
waratah recedes yearly."

1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Sept. 2, p. 5, col. 6:

"The wattles and waratahs are creditable instances of the
value of our Australian flowers for art purposes, and the
efforts of the artists to win recognition for their
adaptability as subjects for the artist's brush are deserving
of acknowledgment."

<hw>Warbler</hw>, <i>n</i>. This English birdname is applied
loosely to many birds of different genera in Australia and New
Zealand.

The majority of the Australian Warblers have now had other
names assigned to them. (See <i>Fly-eater</i> and
<i>Gerygone</i>.) The name has been retained in Australia
for the following species--

Grass Warbler--
<i>Cisticola exilis</i>, Lath.

Grey W.--
<i>Gerygone flaviventris</i>, Gray.

Long-billed Reed W.--
<i>Calamoherpe longirostris</i>, Gould.

Reed W.--
<i>Acrocephalus australis</i>, Gould.

Rock W.--
<i>Origma rubricata</i>, Lath.

In New Zealand, it is now only specifically applied to the--

Bush Warbler--
<i>Gerygone silvestris</i>, Potts.

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