Austral English Part 228
(p. 8): "The nearest scrub, in the thickets of which the Blacks could always find an impenetrable stronghold."
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 36:
"A most magnificent forest of trees, called in Australia a `scrub,' to distinguish it from open timbered country."
1890. J. McCarthy and R. M. Praed, `Ladies' Gallery,' p. 252:
"Why, I've been alone in the scrub--in the desert, I mean; you will understand that better."
1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 374:
"One more prominent feature in Australian vegetation are the large expanses of the so-called `scrub' of the colonists. This is a dense covering of low bushes varying in composition in different districts, and named according to the predominating element."
1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' vol. i. p. 46:
"Just as Tartary is characterised by its steppes, America by its prairies, and Africa by its deserts, so Australia has one feature peculiar to itself, and that is its `scrubs.'...
One of the most common terms used by explorers is `Mallee'
scrub, so called from its being composed of dwarf species of Eucalyptus called the `Mallee' by the Natives... . Still more dreaded by the explorer is the `Mulga' scrub, consisting chiefly of dwarf acacias."
1894. E. Favenc, `Tales of the Austral Tropics,' p. 3:
"Even more desolate than the usual dreary-looking scrub of the interior of Australia."
[p. 6]: "The sea of scrub."
1896. A. B. Paterson, `Manfrom Snowy River,' p. 25:
"Born and bred on the mountain-side, He could race through scrub like a kangaroo."
. and in composition.
The word scrub occurs constantly in composition.
See the following words.
1885. R. M. Praed, `Australian Life,' p. 113:
"We gathered the wild raspberries, and mingling them with gee-bongs, and scrub-berries, set forth a dessert."
, Ramsay.
1869. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' `Supplement,' pl. 26:
"The Scrub-bird creeps mouse-like over the bark, or sits on a dripping stem and mocks all surrounding notes."
(q.v.).
1860. A. L. Gordon, `The Sick Stockrider' [in `Bush-Ballads,'
1876], p. 8:
"'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods, when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub-cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stock-whips and a fiery run of hoofs, Oh! the hardest day was never then too hard."
; a tall tree.
. a wild bullock.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xvi. p. 193:
"He is one of those infernal scrub-danglers from the Lachlan, come across to get a feed."
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1881. A. C. Giant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 278:
"A favourite plan among the bold scrub-riders."
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1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii. pl. 10:
"Drymodes Brunneopygia, Gould, Scrub-Robin. I discovered this singular bird in the great Murray Scrub in South [sc. Southern] Australia, where it was tolerably abundant. I have never seen it from any other part of the country, and it is doubtless confined to such portions of Australia as are clothed with a similar character of vegetation."
1895. W. O. Legge, `Australasian a.s.sociation for the Advancement of Science' (Brisbane), p. 447:
"As regards portions of Gould's English nomenclatures, such as his general term `Robin' for the genera Petroica, Paecilodryas, Eopsaltria, it was found that by retaining the term `Robin' for the best known member of the group (Petroica), and applying a qualifying noun to the allied genera, such t.i.tles as Tree-robin, Scrub-robin, and Shrike-robin were easily evolved."
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. any tree that grows in the scrub.
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 219: