has been written in English descriptions of the
peculiarities of the Australian flora. It has been likened to
a cherry with the stone outside (hence the vernacular name) by
some imaginative person."

1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 19, p. 7, col. 1:

"Grass-trees and the brown brake-fern, whips of native cherry,
and all the threads and tangle of the earth's green russet
vestment hide the feet of trees which lean and lounge between
us and the water, their leaf heads tinselled by the light."

<hw>Cherry-picker</hw>, <i>n</i>. bird-name. See quotation.

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p. 70:

"<i>Melithreptus Validirostris</i>, Gould. Strong-billed
Honey-eater [q.v.]. Cherry-picker, colonists of Van Diemen's
Land."

<hw>Chestnut Pine</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Pine</i>.

<hw>Chewgah-bag</hw>, <i>n</i>. Queensland aboriginal
pigeon-English for <i>Sugar-bag</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Chinkie</hw>, <i>n</i>. slang for a Chinaman. "John,"
short for John Chinaman, is commoner.

1882. A. J. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 233:

"The pleasant traits of character in our colonialised `Chinkie,'
as he is vulgarly termed (with the single variation `Chow')."

<hw>Chock-and-log</hw>, <i>n</i>. and <i>adj</i>. a particular
kind of fence much used on Australian stations. The
<i>Chock</i> is a thick short piece of wood laid flat, at
right-angles to the line of the fence, with notches in it to
receive the <i>Logs</i>, which are laid lengthwise from
<i>Chock</i> to <i>Chock</i>, and the fence is raised in four
or five layers of this <i>chock-and-log</i> to form, as it
were, a wooden wall. Both chocks and logs are rough-hewn or
split, not sawn.

1872. G. S. Baden-Powell,'New Homes for the Old Country,' p. 207:

"Another fence, known as `chock and log,' is composed of long
logs, resting on piles of chocks, or short blocks of wood."

1890. `The Argus.' Sept. 20, p. 13, col. 5:

"And to finish the Riverine picture, there comes a herd of
kangaroos disturbed from their feeding-ground, leaping through
the air, bounding over the wire and `chock-and-log' fences like
so many india-rubber automatons."

<hw>Choeropus</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name for the genus
of Australian marsupial animals with only one known species,
called the <i>Pigfooted-Bandicoot</i> (q.v.), and see
<i>Bandicoot</i>. (Grk. <i>choiros</i>, a pig,
and <i>pous</i>, foot.) The animal is about the size
of a rabbit, and is confined to the inl