(1798), boodjer-re = good. In New South
Wales <i>gar</i> is common as first syllable of the name for
the white cockatoo, as <i>garaweh</i>. See <i>Galah</i>. In
the north of New South Wales <i>kaar</i>= white cockatoo. The
spelling is very various, but the first of the two above given
is the more correct etymologically. In the United States it is
spelt <i>beauregarde</i>, derived by `Standard' from French
<i>beau</i> and <i>regarde</i>, a manifest instance of the law
of <i>Hobson -Jobson</i>.

1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 297:

"The betshiregah (<i>Melopsittacus Undulatus</i>, Gould) were
very numerous."

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. v. Pl. 44:

"<i>Melopsittacus Undulatus</i>. Warbling Grass-Parrakeet.
Canary Parrot--colonists. <i>Betcherrygah</i>--natives of
Liverpool Plains."

1857. Letter, Nov.17, in `Life of Fenton J. A. Hort' (1896), vol.
i. p. 388:

"There is also a small green creature like a miniature
cockatoo, called a Budgeragar, which was brought from
Australia. He is quaint and now and then noisy, but not
on the whole a demonstrative being."

1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 48:

"Young paroquets, the green leeks, and the lovely speckled
budgregores."

1865. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 7:

"I saw several pairs of those pretty grass or zebra parroquets,
which are called here by the very inharmonious name of
`budgereghars.'"

2890. Lyth, `Golden South,' c. xiv. p. 127:

"The tiny budgeriegar, sometimes called the shell parrot."

<hw>Bugle</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the Australian plant
<i>Ajuga australis</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Labiatae</i>.

<hw>Bugler</hw>, <i>n</i>. a name given in Tasmania to the fish
<i>Centriscus scolopax</i>, family <i>Centriscidae</i>; called
in Europe the <i>Trumpet-fish</i>, <i>Bellows-fish</i>, the
latter name being also used for it in Tasmania. The structure
of the mouth and snout suggests a musical instrument, or,
combined with the outline of the body, a pair of bellows. The
fish occurs also in Europe.

<hw>Bugong</hw>, or <hw>Bogong</hw>, or <hw>Bougong</hw>,
<i>n</i>. an Australian moth, <i>Danais limniace</i>, or<i>
Agrotis spina</i>, eaten by the aborigines.

1834. Rev. W. B. Clarke, `Researches in the Southern Gold Fields
of New South Wales' (second edition), p. 228:

"These moths have obtained their name from their occurrence on
the `Bogongs' or granite mountains. They w