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401: Cook named this beautiful and lively bird the parson andmocking-bird. ) by townsfolk, to distinguish himfrom the tamed specimens kept in many gardens, or in cages,which are easily taught to talk. 125: The Desert Spinifex of our colonists is a Fescue, but a trueSpinifex occupies our sand-shores; . Paramatta/sic/, n.