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116: Far down the creek, on one of the river-oaks which grow in itsbed, a swamp-pheasant utters its rapid coocoo-coo-coo-coo-coo-cook. piscator, Linn. Thesmallest forms, such as the blind or worm snakes, are onlya few inches in length, while the largest Python may reach alength of perhaps eighteen feet. Locust, n.

common English bird name. Praed, `Longleat of Kooralbyn,' c. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. rostrata, Schlecht; often called theRiver Gum, from its habit of growing along the banks ofwatercourses, especially in the dry interior of the continent.