"The wood-swallows, known to us old colonists as summer birds, are migratory, making their appearance about September and disappearing about the end of January."
<hw>Summer Country</hw>, <i>n</i>. In New Zealand (South Island), country which can be used in summer only; mountain land in Otago and Canterbury, above a certain level.
<hw>Sun-bird</hw>, <i>n</i>. a common name of various birds. Applied in Australia to <i>Cinnyris frenata</i>, Mull.
1869. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia' (Supplement), pl. 45:
"`This pretty Sun-bird,' says Mr. MacGillivray, `appears to be distributed along the whole of the northeast coast of Australia, the adjacent islands, and the whole of the islands in Torres Straits.'"
<hw>Sundew</hw>, <i>n</i>. There are many species of this flower in Australia and Tasmania, most of them peculiar to Australasia; <i>Drosera</i> spp., <i>N.O. Droseraceae</i>.
1888. `Cassell's Picturesque Australasia,' vol. ii. p. 236:
"Smooth, marshy meadows, gleaming with the ruby stars of millions of tiny little sundews."
<hw>Sundowner</hw>, <i>n</i>. a tramp who takes care to arrive at a station at sundown, so that he shall be provided with `<i>tucker</i>' (q.v.) at the squatter's cost: one of those who go about the country seeking work and devoutly hoping they may not find it.
1880. G. <i>n</i>. Oakley, in `Victoria in 1880,' p. 114 [Title of poem of seventeen stanzas]: