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From:	"roger curnow" <>
Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:11:53 +1000

The Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.) offers

In Australia: (see quots.).

1860 G. Bennett Gather. of Naturalist 283 The Australian Shrike or Butcher-bird, also called Rain-bird by the colonists (Vanga destructor).
1898 Morris Austral Eng. s.v., The rain-bird of Queensland and the interior is the great Cuckoo or Channel-bill.

roger curnow

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