d F.--
<i>G. albogularis</i>, Gould.

Yellow-breasted F.--
<i>G. flavida</i>, Ramsay.

1895. W. O. Legge, `Australasian Association for the
Advancement of Science `(Brisbane), p. 447:

"[The habits and habitats of the genus as] applied to
<i>Gerygone</i> suggested the term Fly-<i>eater</i>, as
distinguished from Fly-<i>catcher</i>, for this aberrant and
peculiarly Australasian form of small Fly-catchers, which not
only capture their food somewhat after the manner of
Fly-catchers, but also seek for it arboreally."

<hw>Flyer</hw>, <i>n.</i> a swift kangaroo.

1866. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' second series,
p. 172:

"I may here state that the settlers designate the old kangaroos
as `old men' and `old women,' the full-grown animals are named
`flyers,' and are swifter than the British hare."

<hw>Flying-Fox</hw>, <i>n.</i> a gigantic Australian bat,
<i>Pteropus poliocephalus</i>, Temm. It has a fetid odour and
does great damage to fruits, and is especially abundant in New
South Wales, though often met with in Victoria. Described, not
named, in first extract.

1793. Governor Hunter, `Voyage,' p. 507:

"The head of this bat strongly resembles that of a fox, and
the wings of many of them extend three feet ten inches. . . .
[Description of one domesticated.] . . . They are very fat,
and are reckoned by the natives excellent food. . . . It was
supposed more than twenty thousand of them were seen within the
space of one mile."

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i.
p. 315:

"One flying fox is an immense bat, of such a horrific
appearance, that no wonder one of Cook's honest tars should
take it for the devil when encountering it in the woods."

1830. R. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p. 310:

". . . a flying fox, which one of them held in his hand. It
was, in fact, a large kind of bat, with the nose resembling in
colour and shape that of a fox, and in scent it was exactly
similar to it. The wing was that of a common English bat, and
as long as that of a crow, to which it was about equal in the
length and circumference of its body."

1849. J. P. Townsend, `Rambles in New South Wales,' p. 97:

"Some of the aborigines feed on a large bat popularly called
`the flying fox.' . . We found the filthy creatures, hanging
by the heels in thousands, from the higher branches of the
trees."

1863. B. A. Heywood, `Vacation Tour at the Antipodes,' p. 102:

"The shr