sheep were annually boiled
down after shearing . . . until . . . the gold discovery; and
then `boiling down,' which had saved the country, had to be
given up. . . . The Messrs. Learmonth at Buninyong . . . found
it answered their purpose to have a place of their own, instead
of sending their fat stock, as was generally done, to a public
`boiling down' establishment."

1895. `The Argus,' Aug. 17, p. 8, col. 2:

"Boiled down, the matter comes to this."

<hw>Bonduc Nuts</hw>, <i>n</i>. a name in Australia for the
fruit of the widely distributed plant <i>Caesalpina
bonducella</i>, Flem., <i>N.O. Leguminosae</i>. Called
<i>Molucca Beans</i> in Scotland and <i>Nicker Nuts</i>
elsewhere.

<hw>Bonito</hw>, <i>n</i>. Sir Frederick McCoy says that the
<i>Tunny</i>, the same fish as the European species <i>Thynnus
thynnus</i>, family <i>Scombridae</i>, or Mackerels, is called
<i>Bonito</i>, erroneously, by the colonists and fishermen. The
true <i>Bonito</i> is <i>Thynnus pelamys</i>, Linn., though the
name is also applied to various other fishes in Europe, the
United States, and the West Indies.

<hw>Bony-Bream</hw>, i.q. <i>Sardine</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Boobook</hw>, <i>n</i>. an owl. <i>Ninox boobook</i> (see
<i>Owl</i>); <i>Athene boobook</i> (Gould's `Birds of
Australia,' vol.i. pl. 32)." From cry or note of bird. In the
Mukthang language of Central Gippsland, BawBaw, the mountain in
Gippsland, is this word as heard by the English ear."
(A. W. Howitt.) In South Australia the word is used for a
<i>mopoke</i>.

1827. Vigors and Horsfield, `Transactions of Linnaean
Society,' vol. xv. p. 188:

"The native name of this bird, as Mr. Caley informs us, is
Buck'buck. It may be heard nearly every night during winter,
uttering a cry, corresponding with that word. . . .The lower
order of the settlers in New South Wales are led away by the
idea that everything is the reverse in that country to what it
is in England : and the cuckoo, as they call this bird, singing
by night, is one of the instances which they point out."

1894. `The Argus,' June 23, p. 11, col. 4:

"In most cases--it may not be in all--the familiar call, which
is supposed to sound like `More-pork,' is not the mopoke (or
podargus) at all, but the hooting of a little rusty red
feather-legged owl, known as the Boobook. Its double note is
the opposite of the curlew, since the first syllable is dwelt
upon and the second sharp. An Englishman hearing it fo